Patrick Henry 's Timeline: Life, Photos, and Key Events
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1736
1773
in 1773
"Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty--that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?"
on 1/18/1773
"I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery."
1774
1775
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