The Durango Herald

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

He says the Georgia colony ultimately protected slavery in its sister colonies by serving as a "white equivalent of the Berlin Wall” between South Carolina and Spanish Florida.Oglethorpe used slave ...
Athens Banner-Herald

Athens native Michael Thurmond writes book on Georgia's founder and his opposition to slavery

The written word can have a lasting impact. That’s what happened in 1996 when Athens native Michael Thurmond joined a Georgia delegation to England to participate in the 300 th birthday celebration of ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Was Georgia’s white founder an ally to enslaved people? A new book dissects his history

Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward ...
walb

10 rural hospitals across Ga. received $400K donation from Colony Bank

FITZGERALD, Ga. (WALB) - Colony Bank’s recent $400K contribution to ten rural hospitals across Georgia through the Georgia HEART Hospital Program. The program will help amplify healthcare funding and ...
Yahoo

Athens native Michael Thurmond reflects on the Englishman and abolitionist who founded Georgia

Georgia will celebrate the 292nd anniversary of its founding by General James Oglethorpe on Feb. 12, 1733. The Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique economic development and social welfare ...
Washington Times

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s White founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of ...