The Edge of Empire - A Different Kind of Place

American Political History · Jul 23, 2022 · 18m

By 1738 the colony of Georgia is five years old and bleeding settlers across the river to South Carolina — because Georgia, alone in British America, forbids slavery, rum, lawyers, great estates, and gives its people no assembly and no vote at all. This episode is the story of that experiment under strain: the bicultural interpreter, Mary Musgrove, the one person the colony could not survive without; the German refugees at Ebenezer who buried their dead and made free labor pay where others failed; the settlers called the Malcontents who damned the whole design and demanded slaves and a voice…