Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!: Difference between revisions

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* "Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the state of New Hampshire.

* The Natchez nation went to war against French Louisiana in 1729 after being abominably treated in various ways and having their culture mucked up; the chief who touched things off is supposed to have said, "We walk like slaves, which we soon will be... Is not death preferable to slavery?"

** They were clever, ~~too--they~~ planned things out well, ''and'' folded over 200 black slaves into their forces after attacking their plantations, and presumably killing their masters.

** They were clever, too—they planned things out well, ''and'' folded over 200 black slaves into their forces after attacking their plantations, and presumably killing their masters.

** The French then bribed the Choctaw into killing the Natchez for them. Freaking politics.

* Harriet Tubman, a "conductor" on the [[wikipedia:Underground Railroad|Underground Railroad]] (that smuggled slaves from the American south to freedom in Canada), carried a handgun with her for protection. She once said that when a runaway slave lost heart and wanted to give up and return to the plantation, she pointed the gun at him and said, "You go free or die."