Question

Who wanted to make one of England's Southern Colonies into a haven for English debtors?

Answer 1

James Oglethorpe wanted to make one of England's Southern Colonies into a haven for English debtors.

James Edward Oglethorpe was a British soldier, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, as well as the one who founded the colony of Georgia.

Oglethorpe along with a group of associates, many of whom was on the prison committee, requested in 1730 to form the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America.

Answer 2

James Oglethorpe--founder to the Georgia colony.

Georgia was founded as a buffer zone between the profitable Southern colonies and Spanish Florida. It was to work as a place to send those jailed for debt which helped to ease overcrowding in English jails and provided a new source of labor to settle Georgia.