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Georgia Experiment
The Georgia Experiment was the colonial era policy prohibiting the ownership of slaves in the U.S. state of Georgia. At the urging of Georgia's proprietor, General James Oglethorpe, and his fellow colonial trustees, the British Parliament formally codified prohibition in 1735, two years after the colony’s founding. The ban remained in effect until 1751, when the diminution of the Spanish threat and economic pressure from Georgia’s emergent planter class forced Parliament to reverse itself.
==Background==
Having envisioned the Georgia colony as a haven for debtors and reformed prisoners, Oglethorpe was uncomfortable with the prospect of Georgians attaining immense wealth and coalescing into a planter aristocracy (akin to that across the border in South Carolina) through the exploitation of slave labor. Oglethorpe shared his preference for an austere ethic of hard work with his fellow trustees of the colony, who believe that their preeminent social goal – moral reform through individual economic autonomy – would be undermined by the introduction of slavery.
The ban on slavery had practical military implications as well. During the mid 18th century, the Spanish maintained a foothold in North America through their colonial presence in Florida, which borders Georgia to the south. London envisioned Georgia as a buffer colony to stem Spanish expansion in the Southeast and protect the more profitable colonies to the north.
The Spanish tactic of recruiting American slaves to military service in exchange for the emancipation buoyed Oglethorpe’s experiment by providing a strategic incentive to minimize the slave presence in Georgia.
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