Finally the stoppage of the parliamentary subvention in 1751 forced the trustees in the following year to resign their charter.
Slaveholders had already crossed the Savannah River in appreciable numbers to erect plantations on favorable tracts.

The lapse of a few more transition years brought Georgia to the status on the one hand of a self-governing royal province and on the other of a plantation community prospering, modestly for the time being, in the production of rice and indigo.

Her peculiarities under the trustee regime were gone but not forgotten.

The rigidity of paternalism, well meant though it had been, was a lesson against future submission to outward control in any form; and their failure as a peasantry in competition with planters across the river persuaded the Georgians and their neighbors that slave labor was essential for prosperity.
It is curious, by the way, that the tender-hearted, philanthropic Oglethorpe at the very time of his founding Georgia was the manager of the great slave-trading corporation, the Royal African Company.

The conflict of the two functions cannot be relieved except by one of the greatest of all reconciling considerations, the spirit of the time.