people who could not pay a debt to a collector
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Debtors in England were sent to debtors prison.
Debtors in England were sent to debtors prison.
Debtors Prison
Georgia
Thousands of people have been sent to prison for murder
The address of the Debtors Prison Of Accomack County is: , Accomac, VA 23301
They died of illness or of hunger even both at the same time.
London between 1812 and 1870 was becoming industrialized, and poverty was rampant. People worked in dangerous factories and lived under threat of being sent to debtors' prison.
Noah Grant, the father of Ulysses S. Grant was sent to a debtor's prison because of an amassed debt made in land speculation. He was then forced to sell his holdings in Connecticut to settle affairs with his creditors.
Initially, Georgia had a large number of debtors.
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Georgia is called a debtors colony because it was created for debtors. In England, there were debtors clogging up the prisons. So people in debt where sent to Georgia to work off their debt. People were unable to pay off their debt and that is why Georgia came about. They took debtors out of the prisons and gave them a second chance. It worked and that is where debtors went.