Thomasville Times-Enterprise

Dames hear Colonial Georgia program

Mary Margaret Quiggle presented a historic program on Colonial Georgia to the John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, National Society Colonial Dames 17th Century. The time frame she covered was from 1733 to ...
Yahoo

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

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 ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia’s founding, 287 years ago, celebrated this month

It was on February 12, 1733 that General James Edward Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia, named for King George II of England. Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, Oglethorpe County in northeast ...
AOL

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

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 ...
The Grio

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

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 ...