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17 de may. de 2024 · Le professeur au Collège de France, spécialiste de la Palestine, souligne le poids des passés vécus au présent dans la guerre actuelle entre Israël et le Hamas. Il dénonce la violence de ...
Hace 2 días · Henry Laurens, on the other hand, ran the largest slave trading house in North America. In the 1750s alone, his firm, Austin and Laurens, handled the sales of more than 8000 Africans. Slaves and slavery are mentioned only indirectly in the 1787 Constitution.
9 de may. de 2024 · John Laurens (born October 28, 1754, Charleston, South Carolina [U.S.]—died August 27, 1782, Combahee River, south of Charleston) was an American Revolutionary War officer who served as aide-de-camp to Gen. George Washington. John was the son of Henry Laurens, an American statesman who aligned himself with the patriot cause at an early date.
Hace 5 días · In this letter, John Laurens asks his father, South Carolina slaveowner Henry Laurens, to give him several slaves in lieu of his inheritance, so that he can arm them to fight in the Continental army. January 14, 1776. I barely hinted to you, my dearest father, my desire to augment the Continental forces from an untried source.
Hace 2 días · Henry Laurens (1724–1792), 5th President of the Continental Congress, his company, Austin and Laurens, was the largest slave-trader in North America. [170] Delphine LaLaurie (1787–1849), New Orleans socialite and serial killer, infamous for torturing and murdering slaves in her household.
20 de may. de 2024 · By the 1790s, the free black population in the upper South had increased to over 30,000. By 1810, the free blacks in the area numbered over 94,000, when even Southerners like Jefferson or Patrick Henry, Henry Laurens, and St. George Tucker publicly deplored the injustice of slavery.
2 de may. de 2024 · This collection consists of a reprint of a letter from Henry Laurens, second President of the Continental Congress, to his son, Colonel John Laurens, from Charleston, SC on August 14, 1776. The editor notes that this letter shows that the difference of opinion between the North and South in 1861 on the subject of slavery did not ...
