Henry Middleton
1717 – 1784
Planter and Representative of South Carolina to both the First and Second Continental Congresses.
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Middleton was among the most prominent of Charleston’s planter class, owning over 50,000 acres and 800 enslaved persons. Though an advocate for local self-government, he opposed independence, arguing in opposition to Thomas Paine’s Common Sense that separation would not be “a last remedy,” but “a new and more dangerous disease.” During the colony’s occupation, he renewed his loyalty to the Crown.
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