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02926aam a2200469 i 4500 001 D69D72B4EAE411E387729F9EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140603010131 008 130806s2013 txu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2013028361 020 $a 0896728323 (hardback) 020 $a 9780896728325 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)835981661 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d IKM $d CDX $d CHVBK $d STF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-tx 050 00 $a PS3603.H376 $b S55 2013 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 086 $a Z TT422.8 C368si $2 txdocs 100 1 $a Chappell, Henry. 245 10 $a Silent We Stood : $b a novel / $c Henry Chappell. 264 1 $a Lubbock : $b Texas Tech University Press, $c [2013] 300 $a xiv, 333 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "On July 8, 1860, Dallas, Texas burned. Three slaves were accused of arson and hanged without a trial. Today, most historians attribute the fire to carelessness. Texas was the darkest corner of the Old South, too remote and violent for even the even bravest abolitionists. Yet North Texas newspapers commonly reported runaway slaves, and travelers in South Texas wrote of fugitives heading to Mexico. Perhaps a few prominent people were all too happy to call the fire an accident. Silent We Stood weaves the tale of a small band of abolitionists working in secrecy within Dallas's close-knit society. There's Joseph Shaw, an undertaker and underground railroad veteran with a shameful secret; Ig Bodeker, a charismatic, melancholic preacher; Rachel Bodeker, a fierce abolitionist, Ig's wife, and Joseph Shaw's lover; Rebekah, a freed slave who'll sacrifice everything for the cause; Samuel Smith, a crypto-freedman whose love for Rebekah exacts a terrible cost; and, towering above them all, a near-mythical one-armed runaway who haunts area slavers and brings hope to those dreaming of freedom. With war looming and lives hanging in the balance, ideals must be weighed against friendship and love, and brutal decisions yield secrets that must be taken to the grave. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Abolitionists $z Texas $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slavery $z Texas $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Texas $x Race relations $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Texas $x History $y 1846-1950 $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Abolitionists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00794478 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 $a Slavery. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120426 651 7 $a Texas. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210336 650 7 $a Roman. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Amerikanisches Englisch. $2 gnd 648 7 $a 1846 - 1950 $2 fast 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 3 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305033303.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106051901.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826083648.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D69D72B4EAE411E387729F9EDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search