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Slavish shore : the odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. / Jeffrey L. Amestoy
- Author
- Amestoy, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lee), 1946-
- Additional Titles
- Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- Published
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- viii, 365 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.True Spirit -- 2.Pilgrim -- 3.Alert -- 4.The Vow -- 5.The Book -- 6.Boston, Brahmins, and the Business of Law -- 7.The Masquerade -- 8.The Great Man of the Age -- 9.The Inheritance -- 10.A Monstrous Thing -- 11.Chains -- 12.Boycott -- 13.The Little Darky Lawyer -- 14.The Club -- 15.The Presumption of Freedom -- 16.Who Can Tell What a Day May Bring Forth -- 17.Duty -- 18.Breakdown -- 19.Around the World -- 20.The Supreme Court Argument That Saved the Union -- 21.The Duke of Cambridge -- 22.Treason -- 23.The Rating -- 24.One of Them Damn Literary Fellers -- 25.Last Voyage.
- Subject(s)
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882
- 1845 - 1861
- Authors—Biography
- Sailors—United States—Biography
- Antislavery movements—United States
- Upper class—Massachusetts—Boston—Biography
- Lawyers—United States—Biography
- Antislavery movements
- Authors
- Lawyers
- Politics and government
- Politicians
- Sailors
- Upper class
- Politicians—Massachusetts—Biography
- Massachusetts—Biography
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts—Boston
- United States
- United States—Politics and government—1845-1861
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780674088191 (alk. paper)
0674088190 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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