USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -From an imperial viewpoint, Georgia functioned as buffer zone between British settlements and their imperial rivals; the new colony was to be a garrison province that would defend the British, especially from Spanish Florida.

Detailed explanation-4: -Perhaps most striking, Georgia was the only one of the North American colonies in which slavery was explicitly banned at the outset, along with rum, lawyers, and Catholics. (Jews did not receive explicit permission from the Trustees to join the colony but were allowed to stay upon their arrival in 1733.)