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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Ford, Jack, 1950-     Subjects     Women, Black -- Fiction.     Women slaves -- Fiction.     Kidnapping -- Fiction.     Trials (Kidnapping) -- Fiction.     Underground Railroad -- Fiction.     Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ford, Jack, 1950-       by title:      Chariot on the mount...       by call number:      FICTION FOR     Search the Web     Ford, Jack, 1950-     Women, Black -- Fiction.     Women slaves -- Fiction.     Kidnapping -- Fiction.     Trials (Kidnapping) -- Fiction.     Underground Railroad -- Fiction.     Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Chariot on the mountain / Jack Ford. by Ford, Jack, 1950- Kensington Books, c2018. Call #: FICTION FOR Subjects Women, Black -- Fiction.   Women slaves -- Fiction.   Kidnapping -- Fiction.   Trials (Kidnapping) -- Fiction.   Underground Railroad -- Fiction.   Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781496713094 (hc.) 1496713095 (hc.) Edition:  1st Kensington hardcover ed. Description:  294 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband's property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children. Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her husband's daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel's death, Mary decides to grant Kitty and her children their freedom, and travels with them to Pennsylvania, where she will file papers declaring Kitty's emancipation. Helped on their perilous flight by Quaker families along the Underground Railroad, they finally reach the free state. But Kitty is not yet safe. Dragged back to Virginia by a gang of slave catchers led by Samuel's own nephew, who is determined to sell her and her children, Kitty takes a defiant step: charging the younger Maddox with kidnapping and assault. On the surface, the move is brave yet hopeless. But Kitty has allies; her former mistress, Mary, and Fanny Withers, a rich and influential socialite who is persuaded to adopt Kitty's cause and uses her resources and charm to secure a lawyer. The sensational trial that follows will decide the fate of Kitty and her children and bond three extraordinary yet very different women together in their quest for justice." -- Provided by publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION FOR Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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