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What were some challenges for Oglethorpe in trying to integrate people from so many different backgrounds and religions?

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Debtor's Prisons

While serving as an MP, one of Oglethorpe's friends was sentenced to debtor's prison. Conditions in the debtor's prisons were terrible. While in prison his friend got the disease smallpox and died. Oglethorpe felt something needed to be done.

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