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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Amestoy, Jeffrey L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 25 halftones

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 Dana’s determination to keep that vow.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index