It’s my day on Colonial Quills, and today I’m talking about the founding of the Georgia colony. Did you know it was meant to be a charity colony? Hop on over to read about it!
Colonial Quills : Georgy – A Charity Case
I learned a lot this year, teaching my kids early American history–and one of the things I’d never known before was about how the colony of Georgia came to be.
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| James Oglethorpe |
It began in the mind of General James Oglethorpe, who was greatly disturbed by all the poor he saw in London–and the drunkeness. He as his friends had been discussing the woeful situation for quite a while, with no ready solution coming to mind. Then one day they saw a map of North America, and they noticed a large swath of land still unclaimed on the Eastern seaboard, between English South Carolina and Spanish Florida. Read the Full Article
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.