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Slavery in the South
James Edward Oglethorpe, by Alfred Edmund Dyer
James Oglethorpe was a British general, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, as well as the founder of the colony of Georgia. Unlike the southern colonies around him, Oglethorpe originally envisioned Georgia to be a slave-free society.
Portrait of James Edward Oglethorpe
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