Eagle Harbor Books welcomes Jeffrey L. Amestoy, a Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School, to discuss his book “Slavish Shore” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17.

“Slavish Shore” is the story of Richard Henry Dana Jr., one of America’s most zealous defenders of freedom and human dignity.

A product of Boston’s Brahmin society, Dana was a Harvard dropout whose 1834 sailing voyage to California resulted in the book “Two Years Before the Mast,” which quickly became an American classic.

Dana’s sense of justice drove him to become a lawyer who championed sailors and slaves, and put him at the center of some of the most consequential cases in American history.

Eagle Harbor Books is located at 157 Winslow Way East.