USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -(1696–1785). A British general and noted philanthropist of colonial America, James Oglethorpe founded the Georgia Colony . He planned the colony as a haven for people who had been imprisoned for debt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Buffer Colony Although the Georgia Trustees originally envisioned the new Georgia colony as a second chance for debtors in British jails, the geographic location was also ideal to defend the British colonies from Spain, which occupied Florida to the south.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the early eighteenth century, Georgia, the last colony to be established, was under the control of a Board of Trustees; the trustees envisioned the colony both as a buffer between Spanish Florida and the Carolinas and a refuge for English debtors.

Detailed explanation-4: -The founder of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, specifically started the colony as a debtor’s refuge in 1732, as an alternative to English debtors’ prison.

Detailed explanation-5: -He and a group of charitable investors asked King George for permission to create a utopian experiment for English citizens imprisoned for debt. England’s prison population could be decreased, and thousands of individuals could be given a new chance at life. With these lofty goals, Georgia was created.