Title: Slavish Shore
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.
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, Politics and government, Lawyers, Sailors, Politicians, Authors, Antislavery movements, Biography