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Podcast S7E14: Michael Thurmond on James Oglethorpe
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Stan’s guest this week is DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond, who talks about his new book, James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey From Slave Trader to Abolitionist, published by the University of Georgia Press. Michael argues that Oglethorpe has never gotten credit for his pathbreaking efforts to keep slavery out of the Georgia colony and his subsequent impact on the emerging abolitionist movement in England.
https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/5-1-24.mp350 episodes
Manage episode 416159396 series 1755187
Stan’s guest this week is DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond, who talks about his new book, James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey From Slave Trader to Abolitionist, published by the University of Georgia Press. Michael argues that Oglethorpe has never gotten credit for his pathbreaking efforts to keep slavery out of the Georgia colony and his subsequent impact on the emerging abolitionist movement in England.
https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/5-1-24.mp350 episodes
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