In new book, Michael Thurmond makes a case that Georgia’s colonial founder “helped breathe life” into the abolitionist movement, notion that is highly skeptical skeptical among some historians ...

Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia will celebrate the 292nd anniversary of its founding by General James Oglethorpe on Feb. 12, 1733. The Georgia colony was ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments ...

In its early years, Georgia stood alone as Britain's only American colony in which slavery was illegal. The ban came as the population of enslaved Africans in colonial America was nearing 150,000.

He says the Georgia colony ultimately protected slavery in its sister colonies by serving as a “white equivalent of the Berlin Wall” between South Carolina and Spanish Florida. Oglethorpe used slave ...

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments ...