2. The British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe, on February 12, 1733 The Native America groups that settled there were the Muscogee people then the Cherokee. WOW!

5. Georgia's culture originated with its settlement by British colonists after the founding of the colony by James Edward Oglethorpe in 1732. The early colonists were mostly English though there were also significant amounts of Scots-Irish, Salzburgers, Italians, Sephardic Jews, Moravians and Swiss

6. They picked cottons or other crop from sun-up to sun-down. Could be sold to another plantation and separated from family and loved ones. Slaves either worked in field, even children, or worked in the house, as servants or caring for children. Slave marriages didn't count, and slaves had to do everything a master or mistress ordered, including sexual relations. Also, in terms of representation, slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person as of the Missouri Compromise until the 13th Amendment. Even after slaves were freed in the South, most stayed on and worked as sharecroppers on masters' lands and were paid almost nothing