Slavish Shore
Subtitle: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674088191
Subjects: Lawyers, biography; Lawyers, united states; Dana, richard henry, 1815-1882; Politicians, united states; Authors, american; Authors, biography; Sailors, biography; Antislavery movements, united states; Upper class
Description: A biography of Richard Henry Dana Jr., a nineteenth-century lawyer who championed sailors and slaves, and was at the center of some of the most consequential cases in American history: defending fugitive slave Anthony Burns, justifying President Lincoln's war powers before the Supreme Court, and prosecuting Confederate president Jefferson Davis for treason. --book jacket.