Henry Laurens
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Henry Laurens was an American Founding Father, merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Contine
Portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott, 1781
Portrait of Henry Laurens by John Singleton Copley, 1782
Treaty of Paris, 1783 painting by Benjamin West (left to right: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Laurens, and William Temple Franklin)
John Laurens
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John Laurens was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his efforts to help recruit slaves to fight for their freedom as U.S. soldi
Henry Laurens
…during the Revolutionary War. He was captured at sea by the British and imprisoned for a little more than a year in the Tower of London. His oldest son, John Laurens, was an aide-de-camp to George Washington and a colonel in the Continental Army. Laurens's forebears were Huguenots who fled France after the Edict of…
Portrait miniature by Charles Willson Peale, 1780
Headquarters at Emlen House in late 1777
Anthony Ramos in Hamilton costume, July 2015