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Appeal To Law
The kidnappers returned to Rappahannock County and, according to court records, were about to sell Kitty and her three children off to slave traders. Somehow, the woman managed to lay her case before a local justice of the peace, Franklin Turner, who issued a warrant for Maddox on the grounds that he had committed trespass and assault and battery and had illegally detained Kitty and the children as slaves.
In her suit, Kitty asked for her freedom and $1,000 damages.
Kitty was taken into custody by the sheriff and committed to the county jail for her safe keeping. The judge later agreed she could be returned to Maddox’s possession if he posted a security bond—$400 for Kitty, $200 for Eliza Jane, $200 for Mary and $200 for James.
"He is not to presume to beat or misuse them upon account of this suit, but is to suffer them to come to the clerk's office for subpoenas for their witnesses and to attend their examinations and the trial,” read the order from Judge Richard H. Field.
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