James Edward Oglethorpe:

New Perspectives on His

Life and Legacy

 

Edited by John C. Inscoe

 

Published by

The Georgia Historical Society

James Edward Oglethorpe Tercentenary Commission

Oglethorpe University

© 1997

 

Table of Contents

 

Prologue
by Governor Zell Miller
 
Foreword
by Edwin L. Jackson
 
Introduction
by John C. Inscoe
 
1. The "Vexed Question" of Oglethorpe's Birth Date
by Paul Stephen Hudson
 
2. James Edward Oglethorpe, Sometime Gentleman Commoner of Corpus
by Sir Keith Thomas
 
3. The Prison Death of Robert Castell and Its Impact on Georgia's Founding
by Rodney M. Baine
 
4. Oglethorpe's Forty Irish Convicts
by Rodney M. Baine
 
5. Oglethorpe, Georgia, and the Spanish Threat
by Phinizy Spalding
 
6. Behind the Lines: Oglethorpe, Savannah and the War of Jenkins' Ear
by Harvey H. Jackson III
 
7. Oglethorpe's Account of the 1745 Escape of the Scots at Shap
by Edward J. Cashin
 
8. Oglethorpe as Revolutionary Propagandist: The Case of Corsica, 1768
by Richard C. Cole
 
9. Profile of an Old Independent: Oglethorpe as Seen in the Papers of James Boswell
by Phinizy Spalding
 
10. "Awake from Visioned Sleep!" Thornwell Jacobs's Discovery of Oglethorpe's Tomb
by Paul Stephen Hudson
 
Epilogue: Oglethorpe's Life as God Grace in Action: A Sermon
by the Rev. John Ashe
 
 
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