JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE

No sooner had Georgia Banned slavery, then some of the large planters petitioned the trustees for a reversal of the ban on the grounds that South Carolina, their neighboring colony allowed planters to use slaves and this put the Georgia planters at a major competitive disadvantage. Oglethorpe won the battle but later lost the war as the ban was overturned and Georgia became one of the worst slave states. What is interesting about this quotation is that in addition to his pragmatic reasons for banning slavery, he was morally offended but the notion and method of chattel slavery and the slave trade. See Quotes 643524 and 643525.

He was concerned about what would happen if Georgia allowed slavery. In addition to all the other concerns—see the related quotes—he had, he was concerned that the slave traders (he used the term “Negro Merchants”.) would dominate the economy and place slaves in all the working jobs leaving “leaving nothing for all the laboring poor white Men”.

No sooner had Georgia Banned slavery, then some of the large planters petitioned the trustees for a reversal of the ban on the grounds that South Carolina, their neighboring colony allowed planters to use slaves and this put the Georgia planters at a major competitive disadvantage. Oglethorpe won the battle but later lost the war as the ban was overturned and Georgia became one of the worst slave states. What is interesting about this quotation is that in addition to his pragmatic reasons for banning slavery, he was morally offended but the notion and method of chattel slavery and the slave trade. See Quotes 643524 and 643525.

He was concerned about what would happen if Georgia allowed slavery. In addition to all the other concerns—see the related quotes—he had, he was concerned that the slave traders (he used the term “Negro Merchants”.) would dominate the economy and place slaves in all the working jobs leaving “leaving nothing for all the laboring poor white Men”.