[nukkad] Re: Serfing Quiz : 2

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

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There isn't much to supplement to what Carola and Pravin mailed, however
here is a bit
add-on from me.

When Patrick Henry died in 1779 he had in his possession 56 slaves of Siedi
African
origin. His liberation programme excluded slaves.

Rohit Zaveri
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On 3/27/08, Rohit Mansukhlal  wrote:
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> Well let me try to solve the quiz:
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> 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:
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> ""  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! ""
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> 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.
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> ""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?
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> Carola
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> 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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