USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Eventually many simply fled the colony for the Carolinas. King George revoked the charter in 1752 and Georgia became a royal colony.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The colony of Georgia, for example, was first founded by James Oglethorpe who originally intended to use prisoners taken largely from debtors’ prisons, creating a “Debtor’s Colony, ” where the prisoners could learn trades and work off their debts.

Detailed explanation-4: -The last of the 13 colonies to be founded, Georgia began as a line of fortress towns, creating a buffer between English settlers in the Carolinas and the Spanish in Florida. Created as a land for English debtors to start fresh in the New World, Georgia was a land filled with promise.

Detailed explanation-5: -Georgia Trustees Courtesy of Georgia Info, Digital Library of Georgia. The initial impetus behind Georgia’s founding came from James Oglethorpe, who envisioned the new colony as a refuge for the debtors who crowded London prisons; however, no such prisoners were among the initial settlers.