Enlightenment · North America · Politics
1732
Georgia Colony Chartered
June 9, 1732
James Oglethorpe, a reformist MP, received a royal charter to settle debtors and persecuted Protestants in the pine barrens between Carolina and Spanish Florida. Slavery and rum would be banned, Catholics excluded. It would be the last of the thirteen English colonies on the Atlantic seaboard. It would also fail its founders.
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