Oglethorpes Dilema from Dialectics by Eyevin Nonet

Dedicated to Gerald Horne

James Oglethorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia, envisioned a society of independent white farmers and initially banned slavery there. Yet Georgia existed on the edge of Spanish Florida, where the Spanish threatened to push northward and were offering freedom to enslaved Africans who escaped, joined their forces, and converted to Catholicism. This created a profound dilemma: should Oglethorpe arm Black men to help defend the colony against the Spanish, strengthening its military defense but also risking rebellion and undermining the racial order he sought to preserve?

Eyevin Nonet présentait un hommage au musicien Thomas Chapin. Flûtiste et saxophoniste New Yorkais, Thomas Chapin est décédé il y a 20 ans cette année. Le groupe a décidé de franchir la prochaine étape en composant dans le style et esprit de Chapin. Le résultat? Notre 4ième album do compositions originales: "Dialectics". Bonne écoute!

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