Christopher L. Webber is the author of more than two dozen books, including American to the Backbone: The Life of James W. C. Pennington, The Fugitive Slave Who Became One of the First Black Abolitionists, and Beyond Beowulf. A graduate of Princeton University and a priest of the Episcopal Church, he has served parishes in New York and Connecticut and has also written several hymns. Webber lives with his wife on an old farm in northwestern Connecticut.
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'Give me liberty,' demanded Patrick Henry, 'or give me death!' Henry's words continue to echo in American history, and that quote, and the speech it comes from, remains one of the two or three known to almost every American. The other speeches that have b... SEE MORE