Tall and broad through the chest and shoulders, clad in a flowing canvas duster, with a slouch hat clamped down over his forehead, he snatched a shotgun from the rifle sheath attached to his saddle. The lead rider yanked his mount to a skidding halt and jumped to the ground. A sagging masonry chimney claimed one exterior wall, and a lean-to holding stacked firewood the other, while an ancient oak tree stood guard over a stone well in the front yard. Close behind, a wagon covered with a tarpaulin and drawn by two lat hered horses in traces bounced and swayed precariously as it struggled to keep up with the four mounted men.Īs they burst into a small clearing, the gauzy midnight moonlight revealed a ramshackle log cabin wedged up against the side of a hill. THE HORSEMEN THUNDERED ALONG THE NARROW COUNTRY LANE, ironclad hooves flinging up showers of sparks as they pounded the gravel path, all pretense of stealth abandoned. With the hope that her story might inspire us all.īear Mountain, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Library of Congress Card Catalogue Number: 2018932847 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the Publisher, excepting brief quotes used in reviews. “Ford does an excellent job portraying the warring factions of the time: those in the South who wanted to preserve their way of life, and those who felt slavery was unjust.” -Publishers WeeklyĪll copyrighted material within is Attributor Protected.Īll rights reserved.
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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. But Kitty has allies-Mary, and Fanny Withers, a socialite who secures a lawyer. On the surface, the charge appears hopeless. Dragged back to Virginia by a gang of slave catchers led by Samuel's own nephew, Kitty takes a defiant step: charging the younger Maddox with kidnapping and assault. Helped by Quaker families along the Underground Railroad, Mary travels with them to Pennsylvania to file emancipation papers. But after his death, Samuel's wife Mary grants Kitty and her children their freedom. Not only is she is kept by the Maddox family as a slave, she is also Samuel's daughter. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change.
Two decades before the Civil War, middle-class farmer Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. A formerly enslaved woman's remarkable story of pressing charges on her captors is vividly captured in this historical novel based on true events.
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