In 1848 one of the most unusual commercial ventures of all time was formed in London. It was called the Canterbury Association and it was based on the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. His ideas were to take a slice of rural England and use it to produce ordered, civilized and self-supporting colonies. The Canterbury Association called for people willing to buy land in the new colony and venture forth to start afresh. In practice, it …showed first 75 words of 758 total…

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