{"id":48366,"date":"2018-09-05T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=48366"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:29:34","slug":"emmy-and-peabody-award-winning-journalist-jack-ford-reads-and-signs-%e2%80%8bchariot-on-the-mountain-friday-september-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/emmy-and-peabody-award-winning-journalist-jack-ford-reads-and-signs-%e2%80%8bchariot-on-the-mountain-friday-september-7\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Journalist Jack Ford Reads and Signs \u200bChariot on the Mountain Friday, September 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Event will take place at Off Square Books at 1 pm Friday, September 7.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on little-known true events, this astonishing account from\u00a0<\/span>Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jack Ford<\/strong> vividly\u00a0<\/span>recreates a treacherous journey toward freedom, a time when the\u00a0<\/span>traditions of the Old South still thrived\u2014and is a testament to\u00a0<\/span>determination, friendship, and courage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named\u00a0<\/span>Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home,\u00a0<\/span>a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is\u00a0<\/span>one of the Maddox family\u2019s slaves\u2014and Samuel\u2019s biological daughter. When Samuel\u2019s wife,\u00a0<\/span>Mary, inherits her husband\u2019s property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty\u2019s three small\u00a0<\/span>children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her\u00a0<\/span>husband\u2019s daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has\u00a0<\/span>been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel\u2019s death, Mary decides to grant Kitty and\u00a0<\/span>her children their freedom, and travels with them to Pennsylvania, where she will file papers\u00a0<\/span>declaring Kitty\u2019s emancipation. Helped on their perilous flight by Quaker families along the\u00a0<\/span>Underground Railroad<\/strong>, they finally reach the free state. But Kitty is not yet safe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dragged back to Virginia by a gang of slave catchers led by Samuel\u2019s own nephew, who is\u00a0<\/span>determined to sell her and her children, Kitty takes a defiant step: charging the younger Maddox\u00a0<\/span>with kidnapping and assault. On the surface, the move is brave yet hopeless. But Kitty has\u00a0<\/span>allies\u2014her former mistress, Mary, and Fanny Withers, a rich and influential socialite who is\u00a0<\/span>persuaded to adopt Kitty\u2019s cause and uses her resources and charm to secure a lawyer. The\u00a0<\/span>sensational trial that follows will decide the fate of Kitty and her children\u2014and bond three\u00a0<\/span>extraordinary yet very different women together in their quest for justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/span>
\nJack Ford has been an American news personality for over two decades. Following his early\u00a0<\/span>career as a prominent trial attorney, he transitioned to television news and has worked as an\u00a0<\/span>anchor\/correspondent for Court TV, NBC News, ABC News, and CBS News. He has received\u00a0<\/span>two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, an American Radio and Television Award, a National\u00a0<\/span>Headliner Award, and the March of Dimes FDR Award. A graduate of Yale University and\u00a0<\/span>Fordham University School of Law, he is a visiting lecturer at Yale, NYU, and the University of\u00a0<\/span>Virginia, where he teaches a seminar on famous trials.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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