![]() He also often pulled students by their ears and, on one such occasion, nearly pulled Dana's ear off, causing the boy's father to protest enough that the practice was abolished. ![]() Barrett was infamous as a disciplinarian who punished his students for any infraction by flogging. As a boy, Dana studied in Cambridgeport under a strict schoolmaster named Samuel Barrett, alongside fellow Cambridge native and future writer James Russell Lowell. ![]() His father was the poet and critic Richard Henry Dana Sr. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen.ĭana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug into a family that had settled in colonial America in 1640, counting Anne Bradstreet among its ancestors. (Aug– January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast. ![]()
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