Why study both colonial Georgia’s slavery laws and evidence of actual practice?
Correct answer(s):
- Legal rules and lived practice can differ
Topic
Slavery in Colonial Georgia
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Why should Georgia’s colonial slavery prohibition not be equated with modern racial equality?
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- It also reflected security and economic motives
What does the reversal of Georgia’s colonial slavery prohibition show about labor policy?
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- Organized settler pressure could change it
When did Parliament formally back Georgia’s colonial prohibition on Black slavery?
Correct answer(s):
- 1735
What helped bring about the reversal of colonial Georgia’s slavery prohibition?
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- Pressure from settlers seeking enslaved labor
Which plantation crop expanded along Georgia’s coast after slavery was permitted?
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- Rice
When did colonial Georgia permit slavery after overturning its prohibition?
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- January 1, 1751