AHC: Georgia Keeps Slavery Banned

From 1735 to 1750, the Georgia colony had a ban on African slavery. Your challenge is to continue this until abolition spreads across the North American continent.
 
hmmm... really the only possibility I can think of is if Oglethorpe recruits, say, farmers from Eastern Europe to populate his colony and aims to build a largely middle-class German population base (as well as increasing the plot sizes to allow for more recruitment). Planters never really move in and so Georgia remains a small, poor, and irrelevant colony. Likely it never ascends to the same level as the others and it may not even join the US in 1776. Likely Oglethorpe also has to somehow get permission to hold the colony as a palatinate a la Maryland the previous century to avoid the King simply appointing a more economically astute/less moral governor after Oglethorpe's death.
 
From 1735 to 1750, the Georgia colony had a ban on African slavery. Your challenge is to continue this until abolition spreads across the North American continent.
hmmm... really the only possibility I can think of is if Oglethorpe recruits, say, farmers from Eastern Europe to populate his colony and aims to build a largely middle-class German population base (as well as increasing the plot sizes to allow for more recruitment). Planters never really move in and so Georgia remains a small, poor, and irrelevant colony. Likely it never ascends to the same level as the others and it may not even join the US in 1776. Likely Oglethorpe also has to somehow get permission to hold the colony as a palatinate a la Maryland the previous century to avoid the King simply appointing a more economically astute/less moral governor after Oglethorpe's death.
The opposite, When cotton and later tea become profitable(and Rice too) you could get homesteads or spanish style parceria(parceria are parcel(pieces) of land, when people without lands got it to got cash and subsistence crops) proprietor or laboured all from immigrants just to get to exploit the land and if slavery is illegal that break the slave power in long term.
 
African agricultural knowledge of rice, cotton and indigo make it all but impossible in my mind to not have African farmers whether free or enslaved working the land en masse.

Also Europeans would drop like flies in the malarial lowlands.
 
Years ago, I had an idea that if the Gold discoveries that sparked the Georgian gold rush in OTL had been discovered earlier, enough white colonists could be brought to the colony to solidify an anti-slavery consensus in a similar way to how the California Gold Rush created an anti-slavery movement in OTL. Given that there was a Brazillian Gold Rush going on from the late 17th century, it's at least somewhat plausible IMO.

Of course, the problem of the malarial lowlands is still there. And there's the issue of what happens once the Gold Rush peters out. But with the right political leadership...

Such a POD would also drastically alter the development of the American colonies as the Georgian discoveries would likely lead to numerous prospectors exploring the region, resulting in earlier discoveries of Gold in Carolina and potentially Maine.
 
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