rate project of organized colonization under- 

 taken since the operations of the Virginia 

 Company of London. The colonization plan 

 called for small land holdings, careful safe- 

 guards against land engrossment, close settle- 

 ment in agrictdtural villages, exclusion of Ne- 

 gro slavery, free transport and equipment for 

 indigent persons of respectable character, pro- 

 vision of a refuge for persecuted Protestants 

 of Southern Germany and Austria, prohibition 

 of rum and spirits of high alcoholic content . . . 

 and development of the economic life . . . on 

 the basis of highly intensive tropical and semi- 

 tropical crops thus avoiding competition with 

 the staples of other Southern colonies . . . 



By 1749, the tide of influence to move to a plantation 

 and slave system was too great to withstand. Along 

 with the introduction of the plantation system came a 

 great increase in population and the sluggish Georgia 

 economy picked up considerably. 



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olonial tobacco aplenty 



After 1752, when the original trustees of the Georgia 

 colony surrendered their charter to the English Crown, 

 making Georgia a Royal Colony, the population became 

 even more widespread. Tobacco growth became popu- 

 lar in the uplands or northern sections of the state. In 

 1772, for example, tobacco exports from Georgia 



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