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LeJau worked for the more humane treatment of slaves. He denounced the law that permitted the physical mutilation of runaway slaves and carried on a veritable crusade again brutality, immorality, and profaneness.
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Clergyman, educator.
LeJau was born about 1665 in Angiers, France, of Huguenot parents. When the Edict of Nantes (the ruling that gave the Huguenots some freedom to exercise their religion) was revoked by King Louis XIV in 1685, LeJau fled France and French Protestantism for England and Anglicanism.
He received his M.A. (1693), B.D. (1696), and D.D. (1700) from Trinity College, Dublin.
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Sometime before 1700 LeJau was a canon at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. In 1700 he left England for Antigua, in the West Indies, to be a missionary. In 1705 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) accepted LeJau as a missionary.
He left the following year for South Carolina, where he was the first rector to serve the St. James Goose Creek Anglican parish. N