Video: '240th Anniversary of Patrick Henry's Liberty or Death Speech'

(Thursday, March 23, 1775; during the American Revolution) — Patrick Henry, an American Founding Father, delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention today in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

Video: 'Patrick Henry - Give me Liberty or Give me Death Speech - Hear and Read the Full Text'

A slaveholder throughout his adult life, Henry hoped to see the institution end but had no plan beyond ending the importation of slaves.