History of the United States . round that it was goodfor the negro to be redeemed frombarbarism and slavery in Africa andbrought therefrom to a greatly improvedcondition of servitude under Christianinfluence in the New W^orld. Further-more, James Habersham, a distinguished J-^^^s oglethorpecolonial leader, maintained that southern settlements could notprosper without negro slave laboi, as the white man could notwithstand the malarial fevers of the swamp lands. Consequently,negro slaves were brought into the colony under ^ ^ ^. * 1 Introduction certain restrictions.^ Besides the settlers brough
History of the United States . round that it was goodfor the negro to be redeemed frombarbarism and slavery in Africa andbrought therefrom to a greatly improvedcondition of servitude under Christianinfluence in the New W^orld. Further-more, James Habersham, a distinguished J-^^^s oglethorpecolonial leader, maintained that southern settlements could notprosper without negro slave laboi, as the white man could notwithstand the malarial fevers of the swamp lands. Consequently,negro slaves were brought into the colony under ^ ^ ^. * 1 Introduction certain restrictions.^ Besides the settlers brought of siave.^ into ine colony-over under the direction of Oglethorpe and the trustees of the colony, a number of Germans, Moravians, Scotch Highlanders, and Puritans from New England settled in the midland and the upper country. 5 Whitefield founded an orphan asylum near Savannah in 1741, raisingmoney therefor by preaching in England and by the sale of crops grown on theplantation, which he profitably farmed through his 52 MIDDLE COLONIES, CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA SIDELIGHTS AND SUGGESTIONS 1. Compare the price set upon Manhattan Island by the Indians with thecost of a single New York skyscraper of to-day. What is the extent of Man-hattan Island? How far has the city outgrown it? Imagine Peter Stuyvesantsreturn to New York to-day. Cf. Irvings Rip Van Winkle. The purchasingpower of Peter Minuits $24 was four or five times as great in 1626 as it isnow; but the realty of Manhattan Island was in 1913 assessed at more than$5,000,000,000, an amount too great for the mind to grasp. 2. Supposing that Lord Baltimore had been able to hold to his originalnorthern boundary (the 40th parallel), would Philadelphia have been builtas a Maryland city, or would its site have been farther north? 3. Since a great deal of space cannot be given to the story of the estab-lishment of each colony, should you not like to look up some special mattersconnected with the colonies which most arouse your
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