Richard Henry Dana Jr.

"Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen."

"Dana became a prominent abolitionist, helping to found the anti-slavery Free Soil Party in 1848 and represented the fugitive slave Anthony Burns in Boston in 1854."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Dana_Jr.


His son, Richard Henry Dana III wrote,

"he was immersed in his law practice, and he was a prodigious worker. He saw with great clearness the points in the cases he took up, and he was untiring in his industry to cover the whole case. He did all the work himself; he did not lay the details on others, and avail himself of their diligence. His time, moreover, as we have shown, was very much at the disposal of those who could pay him little or nothing for his services, and he gave months of labour to the unremunerated defence of the fugitive slave.

Moreover, his deep religious conviction and his high sense of legal honour often stood in the way of his profit. So it was that his life was one of hard work and little more than support of his family."

http://www.winthrop.dk/rhdana.html

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