A review by mctmama
Chariot on the Mountain by Jack Ford

3.0

Set two decades before the Civil War, a slave named Kitty Maddox lives on a Virginia plantation. When her master (and her biological father) dies, her mistress decides to honor her husband's last wishes, and free Kitty and her children. Taking a trip on the Underground Railroad, the women travel to Pennsylvania where Kitty is freed, and placed with a freed black man's family. A greedy nephew decides to dispute the widow Mary's will, and travels to Pennsylvania kidnapping Kitty and her children, with the intent to sell them at a slave market in South Carolina. After being rescued, Kitty takes an unprecedented course of action, and files suit against her kidnapper. The story is based on true events, and is interesting to follow.