Jeff Amestoy
'Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'
Tuesday, October 27th 6:00pm
Bridgeside Books

Join us for a special evening with former Vermont Supreme Justice Chief Justice Jeff Amestoy for a reading, discussion, and book signing of 'Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'

In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer’s memory of the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or undermine the vow he had made to combat injustice. In Slavish Shore, Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana’s unflagging determination to keep that vow in the face of nineteenth-century America’s most exclusive establishment: the Boston society in which he had been born and bred.

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