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Black author Michael Thurmond says Georgia's white founding father deserves credit for inspiring the abolitionist movement that ultimately ended slavery. His new book - “James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia” --focuses on Oglethorpe's failed attempt to ban slavery after starting Britain's 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 enslaved Africans. His book says that while Georgia's early prohibition on slavery ended, Ogleth...

Author Michael Thurmond explores colonial founder James Edward Oglethorpe's effort to ban slavery in new book.

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.

DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond's book traces James Edward Oglethorpe’s origins before departing for America. Thurmond argues that seeing the cruelty of slavery firsthand changed Oglethorpe, who returned to England and shared his views with activists who would become Britain’s first abolitionists.

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