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Fenda Lawrence
Fenda Lawrence operated in the Saloum town of Kaur as an 18th-century African slave trader.
Her marriage to an Englishman gave her the privilege to act as a go-between for the British and French traders and the local Africans.
Lawrence trafficked slaves between America and her homeland of Senegambia. In May 1772, she visited Georgia with five personal slaves and established herself in Savannah as a merchant and slave trader and later became a free black woman for both tourism and trade.
The once Gambian slave trader, after becoming a freed black woman, also became a wealthy merchant.
