Re: [nukkad] Re: Serfing Quiz : 2

["Ravi Menon" <>]

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Whator who is a Siedi African?

On 3/30/08, Rohit Mansukhlal  wrote:
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> There isn't much to supplement to what Carola and Pravin mailed, however
> here is a bit
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> When Patrick Henry died in 1779 he had in his possession 56 slaves of
> Siedi
> African
> origin. His liberation programme excluded slaves.
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> 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.""
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> > 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.
> > >
> > > Henry was somehow connected with the slave system of
> > > American society.
> > >
> > > Quiz is : How ??
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> > > Rohit Zaveri
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