by Alfred Edmund Dyer, after William Verelst, oil on panel, feigned oval, circa 1927 (circa 1735-1736)
No Liquor! No Slaves! No Lawyers! No Catholics!
When he founded Savannah, the capital of his newly chartered colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe had some utopian ideas. His planned city would be built around four squares and four simple prohibitions. No rum. No slavery. No lawyers. No Papists.
