James Edward Oglethorpe: Foreword by Eugenia Price Format:Paperback A hearteningly optimistic book

A hearteningly optimistic book

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James Edward Oglethorpe: Foreword by Eugenia Price Format:Paperback A hearteningly optimistic bookJames Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire. But history was not to let him stay unnoticed. As a member of Parliament in the eighteenth century, Oglethorpe fought for debtors? rights and prison reform, and when he gained them, volunteered to found a new colony in America. Under his direction, settlements were established, strong