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Did Henry Laurens own slaves

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Yes, 260 on his plantation Mepkin in South Carolina, all of which were freed after the revolutionary war.

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Yes, Henry Laurens owned slaves. He was a wealthy plantation owner in South Carolina who held enslaved African Americans on his property. Laurens was involved in the slave trade and was a prominent figure in the plantation economy of the American South.

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