Contributor The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Update
01-01-2016
Content Type
Student Resource
Grade Level
Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
Object Type
Website
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This article explains Patrick Henry’s historic speech “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”. The website has a 7 minute downloadable mp3 file of Richard Schumann interpreting the character of Patrick Henry for The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Students can listen as he re-creates Patrick Henry’s powerful words spoken March 23, 1775 at St. John’s Henrico Parish Church in Richmond.