Chariot on the Mountain

Chariot on the Mountain
Author :
Publisher : Kensington
Total Pages : 305
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781496713094
ISBN-13 : 1496713095
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Chariot on the Mountain by : Jack Ford

Download or read book Chariot on the Mountain written by Jack Ford and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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—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’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.

She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain

She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781416936527
ISBN-13 : 1416936521
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Book Synopsis She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain by : Jonathan Emmett

Download or read book She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain written by Jonathan Emmett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.

Mountain Air Chariot

Mountain Air Chariot
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 134
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1543215858
ISBN-13 : 9781543215854
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mountain Air Chariot by : muluken abegaz

Download or read book Mountain Air Chariot written by muluken abegaz and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the 7 Universes, 100 planets and beings that have not yet been revealed to us. Get insight on all the elements and how the plants came to be. Be informed on the many levels of purgatory planets and paradise planets. Learn about life after earth and the angels and demons.

Master of the Mountain

Master of the Mountain
Author :
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466827783
ISBN-13 : 1466827785
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Master of the Mountain by : Henry Wiencek

Download or read book Master of the Mountain written by Henry Wiencek and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profits" gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he'd vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson's grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call "a vile commerce." Many people of Jefferson's time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?

Master Potter and the Mountain of Fire

Master Potter and the Mountain of Fire
Author :
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780768421903
ISBN-13 : 076842190X
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Master Potter and the Mountain of Fire by : Jill Austin

Download or read book Master Potter and the Mountain of Fire written by Jill Austin and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by raging fire, Beloved travels through eternity in a crystal chariot. Beloved's heart is tranformed by Master Potter, the Bridegroom King.

Riders in the Chariot

Riders in the Chariot
Author :
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 657
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781590170021
ISBN-13 : 1590170024
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Riders in the Chariot by : Patrick White

Download or read book Riders in the Chariot written by Patrick White and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, subtle and sweeping, Riders in the Chariot is one of the Nobel Prize winner's boldest books.

Lassie, Treasure at Eagle Mountain

Lassie, Treasure at Eagle Mountain
Author :
Publisher : Chariot Victor Publishing
Total Pages : 148
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0781402638
ISBN-13 : 9780781402637
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Lassie, Treasure at Eagle Mountain by : Marian Flandrick Bray

Download or read book Lassie, Treasure at Eagle Mountain written by Marian Flandrick Bray and published by Chariot Victor Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy and his uncle go camping in northern Minnesota, where their discovery of an abandoned cabin and a bald eagle leads them into danger, testing Lassie's devotion and Jimmy's faith in God.