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henry lau·rens

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1. Laurens, Henry Laurensnoun

   leader of the American Revolution and president of the Continental Congress (1724-1792)

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1. henry laurens

   Henry Laurens was a prominent American merchant, slave trader, and political leader during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and post-Revolutionary periods of American history. Born in 1724 in South Carolina, he played significant roles in the ongoing debate about American independence from the British Empire. He was also the president of the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1778 and was the U.S. Minister to the Netherlands during the Revolutionary War. Laurens was captured by the British in 1780 and held in the Tower of London for over a year. Despite his involvement in the slave trade, he later became an advocate for manumission and freeing slaves, and he arranged for his own slaves to be freed upon his death in 1792.

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1. Henry Laurens

   Henry Laurens was an American merchant and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as President of the Congress. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and President when the constitution was passed on November 15, 1777. Laurens had earned great wealth as a partner in the largest slave-trading house in North America. In the 1750s alone, this Charleston firm oversaw the sale of more than 8,000 enslaved Africans. He was for a time Vice-President of South Carolina and a diplomat to the Netherlands during the Revolutionary War. He was captured at sea and imprisoned for some time by the British in the Tower of London. His son John Laurens, a colonel in the Continental Army and officer on Washington's staff, believed that Americans could not fight for their own freedom while holding slaves. In 1779, he persuaded the Continental Congress to authorize the recruitment of a brigade of slaves, who would be given their freedom after the war. However, when he presented it to them, the South Carolina Provincial Congress overwhelmingly rejected the proposal, and instead voted to use confiscated slaves as payment to recruit more white soldiers. John Laurens was killed in a skirmish in South Carolina in 1782.

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