Detail from the front of an anti-slavery leaflet about life on Georgian plantations. and the use of slavery on them. Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins - By Mrs Frances Ann Kemble. During the colonial era, the practice of native Indian slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery. - Though initially the penal colony of the Province of Georgia under James Oglethorpe banned slavery in 1735, it was legalized by royal decree in 1751, in part due to George Whitefield's support for the institution of slavery. Georgia had been the only one of the thirteen col

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