Vintage portrait print of American statesman Henry Laurens (1724 - 1792) - President of the Second Continental Congress from 1777 to 1778.
Vintage portrait print of American statesman Henry Laurens (1724 - 1792). Laurens, a wealthy merchant and rice planter from South Carolina, was a prominent political figure during the American Revolutionary War and President of the Second Continental Congress from 1777 to 1778. He was captured by the British in 1780 while sailing to Holland on a diplomatic mission and imprisoned for more than a year in the Tower of London before being exchanged for Lord Cornwallis. Laurens later helped negotiate the details of the Treaty of Paris (1783) which ended the Revolutionary War. Engraving circa 1783, based on a drawing by Pierre Eugène Du Simitière.
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