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"The colony sprang as much from a spirit of benevolence as from the realities of imperial politics. Like the Quaker venture, Georgia was an experiment in idealism. In the 1720s England had been swept by a wave of sentiment to remedy the plight of thousands of poor people drifting without jobs or languishing in debtors' jail. To salvage these 'worthy poor' a number of prominent English citizens - among them James Oglethorpe, a soldier and politician concerned with the welfare of both the poor and the empire - petitioned the Crown for a grant of land south of the Savannah River. The government welcomed this enterprise, seeing it as a way to hold the Spanish in check while relieving social distress at home."
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WEREN'T PRISONERS BROUGHT TO SAVANNAH FOR A PENAL COLONY?
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