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The Silent Shore of Memory

The Silent Shore of Memory

Kerr, John C.

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Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 0875656196
ISBN13: 9780875656199
Publisher: Texas Christian Univ Pr
Published: Mar 11 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Silent Shore of Memory chronicles the life of James Barnhill from his days as a young Confederate soldier through the trials of Reconstruction in his native Texas and his later career as a lawyer and judge.

After being critically wounded at Gettysburg and a long recuperation in North Carolina, James Barnhill returns to Texas where he battles widespread corruption and vigilante violence during the turmoil of Reconstruction.

Although he endures tragedy in his personal life, Barnhill becomes a respected lawyer who defends an African American man accused of rape and represents a titan of the Texas lumber industry in a precedent-setting confrontation with a railroad monopoly controlled by Wall Street financiers.

Steeped in the history of the South, The Silent Shore of Memory explores the nuances of views on slavery and the dissolution of the Union, the complexity of race relations and race politics during the thirty years following the Civil War, and the powerful bonds of familial love and friendship.

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