[nukkad] Serfing Quiz : 2

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

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Well let me try to solve the quiz:

Despite being a revolutionery and fighter for liberty and human rights
Patrick Henry couldn't cope with abolishing slavery. Just read the preceding
sentences to the famous sentence you cited:

""  Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others
may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ""

It must be said, that the speech  didn't appear in print until 1817 in
William Wiirt's biography  "Life and Character of Patrick Henry"  Although
Wirt assembled his book from recollections by persons close to the events,
some historians have since speculated that the speech, or at least the form
with which we are familiar, was essentially written by Wirt decades after
the fact.
Another source to read about his attitude towards slavery is the letter he
addressed to Robert Pleasants on January, 18th in 1773.

""Would anyone believe I am the master of slaves of my own purchase! I am
drawn along by the general inconvenience of living here without them. I will
not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my
devoirs to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts,
and lament my want of conformity to them.""

Is it that what you wanted to read? Did  today's New York Times animate you
to post the quiz?


Carola







2008/3/26, Rohit Mansukhlal :
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> In the third quarter of the eighteen century America fought
> war with Britain seeking independence. One of the fire-brand
> leader of the movement was Patrick Henry who gave the
> famous cry ' Give me liberty or give me death ' in 1775.
> His words have since then attained kind of immortality for all
> freedom loving men and women.
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> Henry was somehow connected with the slave system of
> American society.
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> Quiz is : How ??
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> Rohit Zaveri
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