John Laurens

John Laurens was a soldier in the American Revolution who was against slavery and commanded freed slaves in South Carolina but was shot and killed.

John Laurens Media

• John Laurens signature.png

  Signature cropped from* * Title from Calendar of Emmet Collection. * EM9068 * Statement of responsibility : H.B. Hall

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  Lt. Col. John Laurens, 1871 engraving by H.B. Hall

• Detail of Trumbull's Surrender of Lord Cornwallis.png

  Detail of Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull, showing Colonels Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, and Walter Stewart

• Marriage record for John Laurens and Martha Manning.png

  Marriage record for John Laurens and Martha Manning

• Anthony Ramos in Hamilton costume, July 2015