Slavish Shore : : The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. / / Jeffrey L. Amestoy.

In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer’s memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
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Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. True Spirit --   |t 2. Pilgrim --   |t 3. Alert --   |t 4. The Vow --   |t 5. The Book --   |t 6. Boston, Brahmins, and the Business of Law --   |t 7. The Masquerade --   |t 8. The Great Man of the Age --   |t 9. The Inheritance --   |t 10. A Monstrous Thing --   |t 11. Chains --   |t 12. Boycott --   |t 13. The Little Darky Lawyer --   |t 14. The Club --   |t 15. The Presumption of Freedom --   |t 16. Who Can Tell What a Day May Bring Forth --   |t 17. Duty --   |t 18. Breakdown --   |t 19. Around the World --   |t 20. The Supreme Court Argument That Saved the Union --   |t 21. The Duke of Cambridge --   |t 22. Treason --   |t 23. The Rating --   |t 24. One of Them Damn Literary Fellers --   |t 25. Last Voyage --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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