Amos kettleby, wanted to create the "Margaret of Azilia" a new colony.
His plan was to give English debtors land to farm.
His plan was to give English debtors land to farm.
Georgia settlers went to Carolina to have larger farms.
Oglethorpe's plan for settlement of the new colony had been in the works since 1730. His goal was to move the English citizens imprisoned for debt to the new colony. He reasoned that England's prison population could be decreased in this way.It was considered a vision of social equity and civic virtue. equitable land allocation, spacing of towns, His aim included the layout of towns, stable land tenure, prohibition of slavery and maintaining a sustainable agrarian economy.With Oglethorpe's plan, there was no elected assembly. The plan itself was a miserable failure. Georgia residents complained and since they could not buy or sell their land, they felt trapped.If Oglethorpe had outlawed slavery and limited the size of land grants, the situation in the colony of Georgia would be completely changed.
The colony would have been founded by Britain's poor, giving them a chance to start over in the New World. The colony would also have been founded as an agrarian republic, meaning everyone would be farming equal shares of land and having an equal new start in Georgia. The modern state of Georgia might not reflect any of these beginnings if Oglethorpe's plan had succeeded, but the colony would look something like that if the plans had worked.
The colony would have been founded by Britain's poor, giving them a chance to start over in the New World. The colony would also have been founded as an agrarian republic, meaning everyone would be farming equal shares of land and having an equal new start in Georgia. The modern state of Georgia might not reflect any of these beginnings if Oglethorpe's plan had succeeded, but the colony would look something like that if the plans had worked.
In 1777 the British planned to conquer and isolate the New England colony.
The colony would have been founded by Britain's poor, giving them a chance to start over in the New World. The colony would also have been founded as an agrarian republic, meaning everyone would be farming equal shares of land and having an equal new start in Georgia. The modern state of Georgia might not reflect any of these beginnings if Oglethorpe's plan had succeeded, but the colony would look something like that if the plans had worked.
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His plan was to give English debtors land to farm.
He felt pity for them. One of his good friends who was a debtor died in Debtors Prison. Oglethorpe wanted to make a colony for them where they could have a fresh start. This did not occur however, because once his plan was approved, the debtors were overlooked once more. He truly had good intentions.