Patrick Henry Quotes
Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
Henry, William Wirt. Patrick Henry: Life, Correspondence and Speeches, vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891, p. 152.
Southern secession and the Civil War This is one of the major quotations with which historians rebut the revisionist view that the Civil War was about States’ Rights or other economic factors.
Toward the end of the 19th century Cambodia became a protectorate of France. One of the first things that the French did was abolish slavery. There was a general rebellion as few in Khmer society wanted change of any kind.
Referring to Black Congressman Julian Bond: Louis Eugene Walcott
Brown was the richest man in Rhode Island and made much of his money in the slave trade. This quotation shows that slavery was not completely a North verses South split. Northerners like Brown for whose family Brown University was named, was as virulent supporter of slavery as the most ardent Southerner.
Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
