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Based on little-known true events, this astonishing account from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jack Ford vividly recreates a treacherous journey toward freedom, a time when the traditions of the Old South still thrived&mdash and is a testament to determination, friendship, and courage . . .
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&rsquo s slaves&mdash and Samuel&rsquo s biological daughter. When Samuel&rsquo s wife, Mary, inherits her husband&rsquo s property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty&rsquo s three small children.
Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her husband&rsquo s daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel&rsquo 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&rsquo 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&rsquo 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&mdash her former mistress, Mary, and Fanny Withers, a rich and influential socialite who is persuaded to adopt Kitty&rsquo 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&mdash and bond three extraordinary yet very different women together in their quest for justice.
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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&rsquo s slaves&mdash and Samuel&rsquo s biological daughter. When Samuel&rsquo s wife, Mary, inherits her husband&rsquo s property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty&rsquo s three small children.
Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her husband&rsquo s daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel&rsquo 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&rsquo 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&rsquo 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&mdash her former mistress, Mary, and Fanny Withers, a rich and influential socialite who is persuaded to adopt Kitty&rsquo 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&mdash and bond three extraordinary yet very different women together in their quest for justice.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.