Defeat, 1750s
Defeat, 1750s
James Habersham worked with South Carolina planters such as Jonathan Bryan to grant huge landholdings to themselves and other planters, so the rice economy would take off in Georgia. The work and living conditions of both slaves and poor white settlers in the 1750s after the introduction of slavery are described. A comparison is made with the residents of Purrysburg, South Carolina, settled at the same time and where slavery was legal, showing that slavery enriched a very few. The chapter then asks the reader to consider whether Georgia might have followed the path of Pennsylvania.
Keywords: Habersham, Slavery, Rice, Purrysburg
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