Georgia
Palmetto Patriot’s copy of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World has arrived and he has begun to explore the book. My own copy should arrive in the morning. Check this out:
“The plantation complex that stretched from Brazil to the Lower South sank deep roots into Georgia’s soil within a very short period of time. Philip D. Morgan went a step further when he asserted, “While lowcountry Georgia possessed the territorial extent of a mainland colony, it bore many of the features of a Caribbean island.” The culture and example of the sugar islands, especially those of the Lesser Antilles, exercised a profound influence over the province. As Jack Greene argued, slavery in the lowcountry followed a model worked out in the sugar culture of Barbados. At the same time, the lowcountry developed its own distinctive features.”
Note: Unlike South Carolina, Georgia was founded as a utopian colony for poor Whites. Slavery was banned in Georgia from 1735 until 1750.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormsloe_Historic_Site
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/geo-flor/6.htm Wormsloe Plantation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H34m_A42xA The War of Jenkins Ear at Wormsloe State Historic Site
I thought the British founded Georgia as a penal colony, like Australia.
Not really a penal colony. It was envisioned by Lord Oglethorpe as being a haven for debtors.