Betty Wood

Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775

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Georgia was the only British colony in America in which a sustained effort was made to prohibit the introduction and use of black slaves at a time when the institution of slavery was well established in the other southern colonies.In the first half of Slavery in Colonial Georgia, Betty Wood examines the reasons which prompted James Oglethorpe and the other British founders of the colony to originally ban slavery. In their concern for the manners and morals of white society, she says, they anticipated many of the arguments to be employed subsequently by the opponents of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic. The second half of the book examine… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8203-3149-2
EAN: 9780820331492
Produktnummer: 3465059
Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.5 cm 345 g
Gewicht: 345

Über den Autor

Betty Wood is a reader in American history at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her books include Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age, Women's Work, Men's Work, Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776, and Georgia Women, Vol. 1 (all Georgia).