Summary of Harlow Giles Unger's Lion of Liberty

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The first courtroom appearance of Patrick Henry Jr. was in the Parsons’ Cause, a case that had religious and political implications for both Virginia and England. If Henry lost the case, many would lose their homes and lands.
#2 Patrick Henry was a lawyer, and he was assigned to represent the plaintiff in the trial. He had three previous careers that had all ended in failure. He was intelligent, hard-working, cheerful, personable, learned, and extremely talented in many ways. But he came from a well-educated and successful Scottish and Welsh stock.
#3 Sarah traced her lineage to two of Virginia’s oldest and most accomplished families, the Winstons and the Dabneys. John Henry was a member of Hanover County’s ruling circle, and he became one of the most powerful figures in the county by maneuvering relatives into six of the twelve county judgeships.
#4 Patrick Henry’s childhood home was a rectangular box covered with whitewashed clapboards. It was the center of family life, and he grew up an indolent, dreamy, frolicsome creature. He had a mild, benevolent, humane personality.

Sujets

• Religion
• Historical
• Lettres et linguistique
• Biography
• Autobiography
• Politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 26 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822522961
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Harlow Giles Unger's Lion of Liberty
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The first courtroom appearance of Patrick Henry Jr. was in the Parsons’ Cause, a case that had religious and political implications for both Virginia and England. If Henry lost the case, many would lose their homes and lands.

#2

Patrick Henry was a lawyer, and he was assigned to represent the plaintiff in the trial. He had three previous careers that had all ended in failure. He was intelligent, hard-working, cheerful, personable, learned, and extremely talented in many ways. But he came from a well-educated and successful Scottish and Welsh stock.

#3

Sarah traced her lineage to two of Virginia’s oldest and most accomplished families, the Winstons and the Dabneys. John Henry was a member of Hanover County’s ruling circle, and he became one of the most powerful figures in the county by maneuvering relatives into six of the twelve county judgeships.

#4

Patrick Henry’s childhood home was a rectangular box covered with whitewashed clapboards. It was the center of family life, and he grew up an indolent, dreamy, frolicsome creature. He had a mild, benevolent, humane personality.

#5

Patrick Henry grew up in a secular environment, learning about the fallibility of King and Church from his mother’s Presbyterian church, and the infallibility of King and Church in his father’s Anglican church.

#6

When Patrick Henry turned fifteen, John Henry lacked the money to send his son to an English or Scottish university, but he sent young Patrick to work in a country store to learn how to run a business. They went out of business the first year.

#7

Patrick went to several Christmas celebrations in Hanover County in 1759 and 1760 to look for job opportunities. He would spend the rest of his life isolated at home with the children, as Sarah had to.

#8

Patrick Henry, despite having almost no knowledge of law, was able to pass the exams and obtain a license to practice law. He then returned to his native hill country and took an oath and gained admission to the bar.

#9

Patrick Henry was phenomenally successful as a lawyer, and he attracted clients from far-off counties to appear in his father’s court. In his first major courtroom drama, the Parsons’ Cause, he stood silent, apparently at a loss for words.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The vestrymen, the local governing body of the parish, turned to young Patrick Henry to help them with their lawsuit against the Anglican Church. They believed that Justice Henry’s decision had made the amount of damages a mere formality, and they were ready to pay Reverend Maury his due.

#2

The trial drew a large crowd that was mostly made up of planters and farmers. The plaintiff, the Reverend Maury, had a compelling case: the parish had paid him a mere £144 when market prices of tobacco would have yielded three times that amount.

#3

Henry Lee was a poor country lawyer who was hired to represent the farmers who had been cheated by the Anglican clergy. He turned into a prosecutor, charging the clergy with un-Christian acts of extracting the last pennies from poor farmers.

#4

Henry’s oration had transfixed the judges, and they remained silent as Henry continued to attack the crown and the clergy. The jury awarded Maury one penny after less than five minutes of deliberation.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Patrick Henry’s victory in the Parsons’ Cause added to the joys of the 1763 Christmas season in Hanover County. It set a precedent that other courts refused to overturn.

#2

The Parsons’ Cause trial was the first time that Patrick Henry had ever spoken in public, and he lost. But his plain, farmer’s work clothes, his occasional country twang, his long dramatic pauses, and his self-deprecation in the face of learned judges all became standard rhetorical tools for him.

#3

The British Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax imposed on the colonies to pay for the costs of their military protection. It required the purchase and affixment of one or more revenue stamps on all legal documents, newspapers, and periodicals, as well as on liquor containers.

#4

The American colonies had been free from government intrusion for more than 150 years. However, in 1651, Parliament began to interfere in colonial affairs after Dutch cargo ships began capturing more and more of the trade between America and Europe.