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A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery | iNFOnews
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless.
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A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery
Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless. Oglethorpe led the expedition that established Georgia as the last of Britain's 13 American colonies in February 1733.
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A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery – Metro US
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless. Within a lengthy tribute to the Englishman who died in 1785, the inscription read: “He was […]
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A Black author takes new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery
Could Georgia's white founding father possibly have been an ally to Black people in an era when the British Empire was forcing thousands into bondage?
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Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder
Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder.
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The Skanner News - A Black Author Looks at Failed Attempt by Founder of Georgia to Ban Slavery
Black author Michael Thurmond says Georgias white founding father deserves credit for inspiring the abolitionist movement that ultimately ended slavery. His new book - “James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia” --focuses on Oglethorpes failed attempt to ban slavery after starting Britains 13th American colony in 1733. By the time of the Civil War Georgia would have more slaves than any U.S. state but Virginia. But Thurmond argues Oglethorpe evolved to revile slavery and recognized the humanity in...
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Black author argues Georgia's founder helped inspire abolition
Author Michael Thurmond explores colonial founder James Edward Oglethorpe's effort to ban slavery in new book.
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