Oglethorpe thought slavery against law and gospel; but the circumstances which gave Georgia its first inhabitants were not calculated to furnish citizens over-nice in their ideas about rum and slaves.
Du Bois discusses the early history of Georgia, contrasting its founder's anti-slavery stance with the pragmatic and morally compromised attitudes of its initial settlers regarding rum and enslaved people.
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