WI the British colony of Georgia was not established, or established elsewhere?

raharris1973

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What if the colonial project of Georgia was never started, at least not on the south Atlantic seaboard? OTL's state of Geirgia remains an ill defined borderland between South Carolina, natives and Spanish Florida.

What happens in this borderland as we get to the 1760s,1770s and1780s?

What if Oglethorpe's experiment of a debtor turned farmer and soldier frontier utopia is tried on a different frontier? Perhaps Oglethorpe and the trustees are granted authority for their project on a northern frontier like the recently firmly acquired Nova Scotia or what became OTL New Brunswick which I am not sure was British or French in the 1730s 1740s? This the 13th colony is on the northern edge, not the southern.
 

raharris1973

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If Oglethorpe's and the Trustees colony were set up in the north rather than the south, it would probably retain its initial ban on slavery. The ban on liquor would probably be less sustainable though.

The Trustees would know that "Mediterranean-style" agriculture and silk would be an absolute no-go up in Maine/New Brunswick, so they would have to assume the economic returns would be based off of fishing and lumbering and fur trade with no more than agricultural self-sufficiency. Maybe they would still be interested in the project despite lower expectations.
 
What if the colonial project of Georgia was never started, at least not on the south Atlantic seaboard? OTL's state of Geirgia remains an ill defined borderland between South Carolina, natives and Spanish Florida.

What happens in this borderland as we get to the 1760s,1770s and1780s?
South Carolinians pour across the border to expand their slave plantations. More wars with Cherokee, Creeks, and Seminoles but these wont go swimmingly for South Carolina expansion because there will be less European people than OTL. Even up to the Trail of Tears the Cherokee were holding their own pretty well against Georgians. With no fort at Darien the War of Jenkin's Ear may go rough for South Carolina.
 
Yes, the Spanish and the Slaves will get beat back eventually, but they will wreak havoc in the squatter plantations south of the Savannah River and trash a lot of lowland South Carolina.
 
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