“When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: Yo...”
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Sarah Henry, wife of the famous statesman Patrick Henry, is losing her mind, and she's secretly being kept in the cellar because she is a danger to herself and her children. Daughter Anne has a secret, too. She knows which child will inherit Sarah's madness, and she'll pay any price to protect her siblings from this information.<br> With insight and compassion, Ann Rinaldi explores the possibility that Patrick Henry's immortal cry of Give me liberty, or give me death, which roused a nation to arms, was first spoken by his wife, Sarah, as she pleaded to be released from her confinement. Told from the point of view of Patrick Henry's children, <i>Or Give Me Death</i> eloquently depicts the secret life and tremendous burdens borne by one famous American.<br>
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