This account of the 1739 Stono Rebellion was eventually published in the London Magazine and Monthly Chronologer and is often attributed to General James Oglethorpe, a Member of Parliament. Oglethorpe led an English philanthropic group called the Trustees of the Colony of Georgia, created to establish the Georgia colony. In addition to the Trustees' goal of rehabilitating British prisoners and providing debtors an avenue to pay off their accounts without benefitting from enslaved labor, Georgia also served the strategic purpose of providing a buffer of settlers between Spanish Florida and the very prosperous colony of South Carolina. Oglethorpe took great interest in the Stono Rebellion even though it took place in neighboring South Carolina because slavery and military defense represented essential aspects of the Georgia colony's purpose and structure.