Analysis Of The Book ' Georgia Odyssey ' By James C. Cobb

There has been many historians and theorists who have tackled colonial slavery. One of them is Ira Berlin whose book Many Thousands Gone is his take on slavery diversity in American history and how slavery is at the epicenter of economic production, amongst other things. He separates the book into three generations: charter, plantation and revolutionary, across four geographic areas: Chesapeake, New England, the Lower country and the lower Mississippi valley. In this paper, I will discuss the differences between the charter and plantation generations, the changes in work and living conditions, resistance, free blacks and changes in manumission.

Did you know that before the late sixteenth century few besides the Indian tribes knew of the Georgia territory? Even though, Hernando Desoto traveled through Georgia during his expedition in the 1500s, the growing interest in this area wasn’t until King Charles II granted Carolinas a land expansion in 1663. Georgia was not only the beginning of a new commonwealth, destined to become an important State of the American Union, but also the spirit and purpose led to the colonization of Georgia becoming one of the most significant events in its History. Even so, what was England’s purpose to partake in colonizing the thirteenth and final original colony? After much research, I found that there are many motives as to why England formed the colony of Georgia, but the significant intentions were to aid the unfortunates, to express the idea of mercantilism, and to set up defenses against Spanish Florida.

Stewart writes, “A fundamental argument of this book is that planters used the environment and appropriated knowledge about it to reinforce their own class interests, and that slaves created counterstrategies to promote their own interests” (Stewart xii). This book proves that without slavery, the Georgia settlers could not have succeeded. They also used slavery to reinforce class systems. Even though slaves had more knowledge on the subject matter, they were not allowed to live as well as the settlers and were treated as lower than the others. Chapter three goes into detail about slavery and how the Georgia coast thrived due to slave help.

Slavery was an embarrassing time in America’s history. In 2016, slavery has become a distant memory. It’s easy for us to admit that slavery is wrong but, in Frederick Douglass’s time no one thought that it was. Frederick Douglass went on to write books and give speeches in hope that one day all slaves would be free. In the book called “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, he attempts to shine light on the American Slave system in the 1800’s.

Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Located in the Northwestern part of Georgia, and beside the South of the Chattahoochee River, there is a city known as “Atlanta”. Atlanta was filled with the population of 5.2 million people, but grew over the years, mainly with African Americans. The city’s terminus was in 1837 with early inhabitants of creeks and cherokees and it’s early “days” were filled with mostly English, Scottish, Irish , but only a few Moravians and Jews. With a landscape of low hills and sedimentary rocks, Atlanta is positioned in Piedmont.

Smuggling slaves out of bondage and onto freedom up north, was not limited to only African Americans, but also many other helpful people of a variety of races, ethnicities, and genders (Cecelski, 176). The people of differing race were typically lower class, some were Quakers, and the majority did not have much of a hand in the wealthier planters and landowners whose slaves were being led to freedom (Cecelski, 176). What this demonstrates for

In the 1720’s the state of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe in his humanitarian pursuits. Ever since its creation the state of Georgia has seen its politics drastically changed and filled with controversy. Ranging from the disreputable Yazoo Land Deal scandal, civil war, plantation society. Civil Rights movement, Dominant Democratic South, and to modern day’ Republican Georgia. In 1730 a charter was given, so that a settlement could be established on the Savannah River. With his 120 follower which consisted of settlers, entrepreneurs, and adventures Oglethorpe established the 13th British colony. At the start Georgia did not use slavery, however due to its massive amount of farmland slave were brought in to work several years later.

Georgia received its charter in 1732 and had a ban on slavery. For its first twenty eight years this ban prevailed until pro-slavery advocates got their way in 1750, the same year that Georgia became a Royal Colony. By 1760 more than one third of Georgia’s population were black slaves, and by the dawn on the American Revolution the number swelled to ___________. These slaves were the first Africans in Georgia, and they had absolutely no legal rights – they were merely property of white farmers and land owners, and for many they were a sign of wealth and power. There was, however, a growing problem in Georgia that would eventually bring it to its knees – as the slave population grew, so did the dependency on the slaves. Once illegal in Georgia, by the end of the 18th century Georgia could scarcely survive without

During colonialism of the United States, the massive need for labor among the colonies spurred the economic importance of slave labor, in particular, Indian slave labor. Alan Gallay emphasizes the South Carolina colony from its settlement in 1670 until 1717 in his nonfictional novel, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. In his book, Gallay recreates the conditions during this time period to explain slave trade and its influence on European settlements as well as Indian lifestyle.

Beginning in the 1700s when African slaves are introduced as the alternative to the diminishing population of Native Americans, a wide gap develops between the white elite—commonly plantation holders of the lowcountry—and the black community. The lack of slaves in Georgia was not due to moral opposition; laws prevented the residents who were “stark mad for Negroes,” from taking part in their share of the Middle Passage. (Berlin 144) Slave owners bought their slaves with preference of regional and national origin to ensure in their minds the best work force possible to cultivate the dominating crop at the time, rice. The booming rice and indigo industry isn’t all to blame for the sharp increase of importation of African slaves, soon leading

The south in the seventeenth century was experiencing a complicated relationship between race and the subject of slavery. Walter Jennison opens his book with the tailing of colonial Georgia’s slavery issue on the tail end of James Oglethorpe’s failure of creating a common mans paradise. Slavery was an important part of economic growth, which Jennison tackles in this book. Jennison’s approach on slavery was clearly showing that slavery began in Georgia as a not a way to control the race, but to accommodate the needs of labor and exploit a system for labor for the development of plantations. Jennison uses this platform to demonstrate how slave labor rapidly expanded beyond plantations and into the city of Savannah, GA, making slave labor vital

During colonialism of the United States, the massive need for labor among the colonies spurred the economic importance of slave labor, in particular, Indian slave labor. Alan Gallay emphasizes the South Carolina colony from its settlement in 1670 until 1717 in his nonfictional novel, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. In his book, Gallay recreates the conditions during this time period to explain slave trade and its influence on European settlements as well as Indian lifestyle.

With the first settlements in Virginia, the idea and desire of the settlers were to be free; to begin a new life. Upon arrival settlers began building on the dream of a bi-racial settlement. A dream of people being liberated from oppression, in particular, Catholic oppression and slavery from the Spanish. Yet from the very beginning slavery was a part of the culture. What a huge contradiction! Or was it? Did slavery play a part in the American dream of freedom? Morgan’s book further explores slavery in Virginia in an attempt shed a light on the subject of freedom and slavery co-existing.

As I have revealed in the previous chapter, preceding the incipient glut in the Asante slave markets, there is little doubt that the nation’s economy was able to adapt with some success in finding a purpose of the slave surpluses experienced after the abolition of the trans-atlantic trade. As Huydecoper identified in the DATE, slave owners had become reluctant to sell, knowing that he would have to match the growing prices in the interior. As revealed by his experiences on the Gold Coast, the ‘best’ source of 1,070 slaves he bought were from private owners. This would not only suggest that slave ownership had opened up to the greater population of the polity, but that Chiefs and other prominent citizens were less willing to sell, and that they had uses for their slaves other than a quick