Purdue University

Book explores Georgian history from view of the father of 3 Sons of Liberty

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University history professor's latest book looks at the Colony of Georgia through the eyes of a successful merchant who sided with England and whose son overshadows him ...
The Durango Herald

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

Now he has written a provocatively titled book: “James Oglethorpe, Father Of Georgia — A Founder’s Journey From Slave Trader to Abolitionist.”Published this month by the University of Georgia Press, ...
The Grio

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments ...
Daily Journal

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

In its early years, Georgia stood alone as Britain’s only American colony in which slavery was illegal. The ban came as the population of enslaved Africans in colonial America was nearing 150,000.
AOL

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

In new book, Michael Thurmond makes a case that Georgia’s colonial founder “helped breathe life” into the abolitionist movement, notion that is highly skeptical skeptical among some historians ...
News4Jax

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

Read full article: Clay County Schools announces staff changes as district faces potential $10M budget shortfall for next year Three left lanes of Interstate 95 North at Airport Road were closed ...