I’ve been reading Oglethorpe’s wiki. He seems to be very different from what they showed on BS. No word on labor camps. Seems like the unjustly imprisoned people he brought from England weren’t imprisoned, but made into a proper settlers. And he banned slavery in Georgia. Is it bad that I’m gonna take credit from him and fantasize that he did all that after having discussions with James and Thomas? That just fits their characters so well.

It’s not bad at all. I’ve seen the bio of the real James Oglethorpe and he seems to have been a decent man – in fact, historically, when Georgia was founded slavery was banned in the state, mostly due to Oglethorpe’s strong anti-slavery beliefs. I simply can’t support interpreting James Oglethorpe as being the same person that we see in the show, because it’s made quite clear by Silver and Max both that the men Oglethorpe is using to till his fields are not there of their own free will, and that, to me, is slavery. I’m kind of sad that they took the name of a good man and applied it to someone who is so completely antithetical to what James Oglethorpe actually believed in – I can’t help but feel that the historical Oglethorpe would be disgusted at the idea of being associated with the self-aggrandizing, hypocritical, frankly delusional, slaving piece of shit we see in the show. They’ve got their history right in that it’s a sugar plantation, but other than that, they’ve quite missed the point of Georgia as a colony and what it was actually founded on.