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The Philadelphia Catechism

In: The History of Work

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  • Richard Donkin

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Henry Dana, Jr. was a raw Harvard law graduate in 1834 when he walked up the gangplank of the Pilgrim, a brigantine sailing out of Boston on the hazardous voyage around Cape Horn that would bring him five months later to California. Dana had joined the ship as an ordinary seaman in an attempt to recover his health and eyesight. Reading the law had become impossible after an attack of measles, and the doctor’s somewhat drastic advice had been to spend some time at sea as a curative.

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  • Richard Donkin, 2010. "The Philadelphia Catechism," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The History of Work, chapter 0, pages 133-145, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28217-9_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230282179_10
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