Title The short life of free Georgia : class and slavery in the colonial South / Noeleen McIlvenna

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Pre-Georgia, 1720s -- Workers, 1733-1736 -- Discontent, 1736-1739 -- Whitefield and war, 1739-1742 -- Credit and blame, 1742-1749 -- Defeat, 1750s Summary This text tells the foundation story of Georgia, chartered in 1732 to be a charity colony for poor white Europeans. Southern history is most often viewed through the lens of race. But the philanthropist Trustees banned slavery for the first 20 years of settlement, so the political perspective of the poor settlers reflected the rigid hierarchy of social class as English people of the time understood it Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 13, 2016) Subject Social classes -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century Social conflict -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Slavery Social classes Social conflict SUBJECT Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054218 Subject Georgia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469624051 1469624052 9781469624044 1469624044

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