Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Craig, Winfield Scott
Author's Email Address	wsc08@fsu.edu
URN	etd-07222010-182431
Title	Slavery and Antislavery in the Founding of Georgia and New South Wales
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	History, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Edward Gray Committee Chair James P. Jones Committee Member Mary Oshatz Committee Member
Keywords	Antislavery Convicts Transportation
Date of Defense	2010-06-23
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis examines the development of antislavery ideologies in both colonial Georgia and New South Wales. It unveils the reasoning behind the creation of Georgia, as a colony that would serve as a receptacle for debtors and the English poor, and traces the rise and fall of a new colonial paradigm that would have excluded slavery in the New World. Though the Georgia project ultimately failed, a similar ideology was developed in the founding of the penal colony, New South Wales. Slavery was again excluded from a colony in the British Empire, as an endless supply of convict laborers became the equivalent of slaves. Convict transportation to Australia was eventually stopped in the nineteenth century, and as a result Queensland planters turned to the race-based slavery of South Sea Islanders.
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