The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South, by Noeleen McIlvenna

In The Short Life of Free Georgia, Noeleen McIlvenna chronicles the years between 1732 and 1752 and challenges the conventional view that Georgia’s colonial purpose was based on unworkable assumptions and utopian ideals. Rather, Georgia largely succeeded in its goals—until self-interested parties convinced England that Georgia had failed, leading to the colony’s transformation into a replica of slaveholding South Carolina.
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