USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He was a social reformer in England founding Georgia, after a grant from King George II, to resettle Britain’s poor, especially those in debtors’ prison. He established a small group on the Savanna River hoping to create a debtors colony that was free of vice.

Detailed explanation-2: -James Oglethorpe died on June 30, 1785. He was 88 years old. Although many of his utopian ideals for Georgia did not last (slavery became legal in 1751), he helped a lot of the poor and persecuted of England by providing them land and opportunity in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1735 and 1750 Georgia was the only British American colony to attempt to prohibit Black slavery as a matter of public policy. The decision to ban slavery was made by the founders of Georgia, the Trustees.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oglethorpe imagined the Georgia colony to be an ideal agrarian society; he opposed slavery and allowed people of all religions to settle in Savannah even though the charter stated that Catholics and Jewish people were not allowed.