كتاب
Slavish shore: the odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
| العنوان: | Slavish shore: the odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. |
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| المؤلفون: | Amestoy, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lee), 1946- |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | viii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Lawyers -- United States -- Biography., Politicians -- Massachusetts -- Biography., Authors -- Biography., Sailors -- United States -- Biography., Antislavery movements -- United States., Upper class -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography., Antislavery movements., Authors., Lawyers., Politics and government., Politicians., Sailors., Upper class., Biography. |
| Subject Person: | Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 1815-1882. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1861., Massachusetts -- Biography., Massachusetts., Massachusetts -- Boston., United States. |
| Time: | 1845 - 1861 |
| الوصف: | 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. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | True spirit -- Pilgrim -- Alert -- The vow -- The book -- Boston, Brahmins, and the business of law -- The masquerade -- The great man of the age -- The inheritance -- A monstrous thing -- Chains -- Boycott -- The little darky lawyer -- The club -- The presumption of freedom -- Who can tell what a day may bring forth -- Duty -- Breakdown -- Around the world -- The Supreme Court argument that saved the Union -- The Duke of Cambridge -- Treason -- The rating -- One of them damn literary fellers -- Last voyage. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn900609711 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-674-08819-1 0-674-08819-0 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014381728.0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780674088191 0674088190 |
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