# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sidney's Salon w/ Michael Thurmond - "James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a presentation with Michael Thurmond, author of "James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia"About this EventFounded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered England’s “worthy poor” and persecuted Christians an opportunity to achieve financial security in the New World by exporting goods produced on small farms. Most significantly, Oglethorpe and his fellow Trustees were convinced that economic vitality could not be achieved through the exploitation of enslaved Black laborers.Due primarily to Oglethorpe’s strident advocacy, Georgia was the only British American colony to prohibit chattel slavery prior to the American Revolutionary War. His outspoken opposition to the transatlantic slave trade distinguished Oglethorpe from British colonial America’s more celebrated founding fathers.James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist uncovers how Oglethorpe's philosophical and moral evolution from slave trader to abolitionist was propelled by his intellectual relationships with two formerly enslaved Black men. Oglethorpe’s unique “friendships” with Ayuba Suleiman Diallo and Olaudah Equiano, two of eighteenth-century England’s most influential Black men, are little-known examples of interracial antislavery activism that breathed life into the formal abolitionist movement.Utilizing more than two decades of meticulous research, fresh historical analysis, and compelling storytelling, Michael L. Thurmond rewrites the prehistory of abolitionism and adds an important new chapter to Georgia’s origin story.Registration is appreciated, as space is limited! We will serve light refreshments at 5:30, and the presentation will begin at 6:00.Agenda?: 05:30 PMReception?: 06:00 PMPresentation
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/macon/sidneys-salon-w-michael-thurmond-james-oglethorpe-father-of-georgia/100001441850005179
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 2 hours
  - Location: 950 3rd St
  - Languages: English

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Macon
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 950 3rd St
- **lat**: 32.8288059
- **long**: -83.632536
- **full address**: 950 3rd St, 950 3rd Street, Macon, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Sidney's Salon w/ Michael Thurmond - "James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia" being held?
  - **A:** Sidney's Salon w/ Michael Thurmond - "James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia" takes place on Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm at 950 3rd St, 950 3rd Street, Macon, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Sidney's Salon w/ Michael Thurmond - "James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia"?
  - **A:** Sidney's Salon w/ Michael Thurmond - "James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia" is organized by Historic Macon Foundation.

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