Singerman Entry
Singerman ID#supp1739
Dana, Richard Henry. Usury Laws. Speech of Richard H. Dana, Jr., in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, February 14, 1867, on the Repeal of the Usury Laws. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1867. 30 p.
Notes
The author of Two Years Before the Mast reviews the Mosaic law against charging interest and proceeds to characterize the Jews as loan sharks ("the Jews emerge from their alleys, and the curb-stone brokers swarm").