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| name = William Prince Ford | image = William Prince Ford, preacher, 1860.jpg | caption = William Prince Ford in 1860 | birth_date = {{birth date|1803|01|15}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1866|08|23|1803|01|15}} | death_place = | nationality = American | occupation = Preacher and planter | module ={{Infobox military person |battles = American Civil War }} }}William Prince Ford (January 15, 1803 – August 23, 1866) was a Baptist minister preacher and planter in pre-Civil War Louisiana.{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA62 62]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}}{{sfn|McCarthy|2017}} He was the slave owner who first bought Solomon Northup, a free African-American, after Northup had been kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and sold in New Orleans. Those events happened in 1841.[1] He resided in the "Great Pine Woods", Avoyelles,{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 61]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}} Red River Parish, Louisiana,{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA62 62]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}} and he ran a farm there.{{sfn|McCarthy|2017}} At the same year, Ezra Bennett, a Bayou Boeuf storekeeper and planter, lived near the plantation of Prince Ford and gave him instructions to his factors.[2] After selling Northup to another slaveholder, Ford in 1843 converted, with most of his Baptist congregation, to the Churches of Christ, to which Ford had become influenced by the writings of Alexander Campbell. Campbell visited the congregation in 1857, at which time Campbell was favorably impressed by the fellowship practiced between blacks and whites in the congregation. As of 2014 the congregation continues as the Cheneyville Christian Church. It is the oldest congregation associated with the Restoration Movement in Louisiana.[3] BiographyWilllam Prince Ford was born in 1803.{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA62 62]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}} He was a pioneer planter of the Cheneyville area, was among the first recipients of a land patent from the United States in southwestern Louisiana.{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA62 62]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}} He was also a dedicated Baptist minister associated with the Beulah Baptist Church in Cheneyville and the Springhill Baptist Church.{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA62 62]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}} His letters reflect a particularly God-fearing, righteous man who was quite articulate.{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA62 62]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}} Ford was a principal in a doctrinal quarrel over predestination that raged among Cheneyville Baptists in 1840s.{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA62 62]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}} He was finally expelled from Springhill Baptist Church as a heretic for, among other reasons, allowing a Methodist to take communion in the church.{{sfn|Zender|2008|p=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA63 63]|loc=[https://books.google.es/books?id=FZxw9pb2s28C&pg=PA61 Chapter VII]}} In 1841, William Prince Ford purchased Solomon Northup at an auction in New Orleans, Louisiana.{{sfn|McCarthy|2017}} In Saratoga Springs Solomon Northup worked as a plumber, so he began to help William Prince Ford with the lumber mill.{{sfn|McCarthy|2017}} He showed him how to build rafts from pine trees they cut and how to tie the pines together to float on the water.{{sfn|McCarthy|2017}} Solomon Northup built a mill on the banks of Indian Creek, so William Prince Ford helped him.{{sfn|McCarthy|2017}} Despite all his help, farm lost money, he had more debt and finally he sold Solomon Northup.{{sfn|McCarthy|2017}} Popular cultureIn the 2013 feature film 12 Years a Slave, Ford was portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch. Some of Ford's descendants have objected to the portrayal in the film as rendering Ford as a "pompous hypocrite; a weak-willed man unable to protect Northup and his fellow slaves from sadistic overseers in the cotton fields," in contrast to Northup's own description of Ford as a humane man: "There never was a more kind, noble, candid Christian man than William Ford."[4] References1. ^{{cite news|url = http://www.nola.com/community/st-tammany/index.ssf/2014/02/southeastern_louisiana_univers_52.html|title = Southeastern Louisiana University presents program on 'Twelve Years a Slave' |newspaper = Times-Picayune|date = 2014-02-12|accessdate = 2014-02-27}} The lecture was titled "The Gods of Slavery: The Theology of Solomon Northup" and was delivered by Stanley Neal Helton on 2014-02-26 at Beacon Light Baptist Church in Hammond, Louisiana. 2. ^{{cite book |last=Turrell |last2=Calhoun |title=Ezra Bennett Papers |chapter=Ezra Bennett to Messrs |date=August 1841 |publisher=Louisiana State University |place=Alexandria}} 3. ^{{cite news|url = http://www.christianchronicle.org/article/oscar-best-picture-contender-12-years-a-slave-has-ties-to-stone-campbell-movement |title = Oscar contender '12 Years a Slave' has ties to Restoration Movement |first = Erik |last = Tryggestad |newspaper = Christian Chronicle |date = 2014-02-27 |accessdate = 2014-02-27}} 4. ^{{cite news|url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545950/Hollywood-villian-No-slave-owner-great-grandfather-model-morality-Astonishing-claim-family-outraged-Benedict-Cumberbatch-portrayal-hit-film-12-Years-A-Slave.html |title = Hollywood villain? No, our slave owning great grandfather was the very model of morality, claim family outraged by Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal in 12 Years A Slave |accessdate = 2014-02-27 |date = 2014-01-26 |newspaper = Daily Mail |first1 = Sharon |last1 = Churcher |first2 = Barbara |last2 = McMahon}} Bibliography{{refbegin}}
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