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Encyclopedia article about immigration to colonial Georgia. Immigrants to colonial Georgia came from a vast array of regions around the Atlantic basin--including the British Isles, northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, the Caribbean, and a host of American colonies. They arrived in very different social and economic circumstances, bringing preconceptions and cultural practices from their homelands. Each wave of migrants changed the character of the colony--its size, composition, and economy--and brought new opportunities and new challenges to the people already there. A majority of the immigrant white population traveled to Georgia because of the availability and cheapness of land, which was bought, bartered, or bullied from surrounding Indians: more than 1 million acres in the 1730s, almost 3.5 million acres in 1763, and a further cession of more than 2 million acres in 1773.
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  1. Colonization
  2. Emigration And Immigration
  3. Georgia
  4. Migration, Internal
  5. Slave Trade
  6. Slaver

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