Fenda Lawrence (1742[1] – after 1780), was an African slave trader who operated in the Saloum town of Kaur.
[2] She was issued a document from the state proclaiming that she was "a free black woman and heretofore a considerable trader in the River Gambia on the coast of Africa, hath voluntarily came to be and remain for some time in this province".
Lawrence would have been a native speaker of Wolof, but in order to trade in Georgia, would have spoken Creole.
[3] Deane requested permission on behalf of Lawrence for her to settle permanently in Georgia.
[5] In Robert Davis' article for The Georgia Historical Quarterly, her proposes that Fenda Lawrence was the mother of at least one if not more of Deane's children.