On this day in 1732, James Oglethorpe was granted a charter to establish a colony, The Province of Georgia, in North America. The British government saw the colony as a ‘buffer’ between Spanish Florida and the British colonies along the Atlantic coast in North America.
The colony was planned as utopian society with an integrated physical, economic and social design influenced by the ideals of James Harrington. Oglethorpe envisioned a colony which would serve as a haven for English subjects who had been imprisoned for debt and “the worthy poor.” General Oglethorpe imposed laws that many colonists disagreed with, such as the banning of alcoholic beverages.[5] He disagreed with slavery and thought a system of smallholdings more appropriate than the large plantations common in the colonies just to the north.
A decision was made here…
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Yesterday was the birthday, in 1810, of Robert Schumann, German Romantic composer. Here is the incredible Yuja Wang playing ‘The Smuggler’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMxmNm2xnTk
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