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William Prince Ford S Wallfield Plantation

Rapides,

Louisiana,United-states - 71430

Detailed description is Located along Hurricane Creek outside of present day Forest Hill.
Located along Hurricane Creek outside of present day Forest Hill.
Solomon Northup described the home as "two stories high, with a piazza in front." Also on the grounds were a log kitchen, poultry house, corncribs, and several slave cabins.
Northup mentions peach, orange and pomegranate trees.
Northup lived at this plantation while working at Ford's mill until he was sold to a carpenter, John M.
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Northup gave an account of Ford reading scripture to his slaves every Sunday.
He also allowed his slaves to own Bibles.
Northup refers to Ford as a "model master" saying "fortunate was the slave who came to his possession.
Were all men such as he, slavery would be deprived of more than half its bitterness.".
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Land records show Ford purchased around 558 acres in central Louisiana between 1836 and 1859.
His home on Hurricane Creek is no longer there, however, giant, old oak trees dot the property.
Today the Guillory family owns thirty acres of the original property.
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Inspired by his grandmother, Lillie Hanks Willis, and his cousin's Donnie Willis and Dr.
Greene Wallace Strother, Randy Willis began researching and writing about Joseph Willis in 1980..
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After writing Joseph Willis' biography and many articles on him, Randy got the idea for a novel based upon Joseph's life from his friend and fellow researcher Dr.
Sue Eakin..
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Dr.
Eakin had first contacted Randy in 1981 after reading an article he had written about Joseph which mentioned that he had purchased the only copy of the Spring Hill Baptist Church minutes in existence and which had much information on William Prince Ford.
Dr.
Eakin asked Randy if he would help her with her research on Ford who had bought Solomon Northup, in 1841, and was an associate and friend of Joseph Willis..
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Dr.
Eakin wrote Randy Willis on March 7, 1984, "We had a wonderful experience dramatizing Northup and I think there could be a musical play on Joseph Willis.
It seems to me it gets the message across far more quickly than routine written material." She added, "a fictional novel based upon Joseph Willis' life would be more interesting to the general public than a biography and would reach a greater audience." .
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This is how Randy Willis got the idea for both the novel and the play that later became "Twice a Slave." .
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Randy was often a guest lecturer, on the life of his 4th great-grandfather Joseph Willis, in Dr.
Eakin's history classes at Louisiana State University at Alexandria.
She specialized in Louisiana history, particularly the Old South plantation system.
Dr.
Eakin is best known for documenting, annotating, and reviving interest in the 1853 "Twelve Years a Slave," a slave narrative by Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
Dr.
Eakin, at the age of eighteen, rediscovered a well-worn, long-forgotten copy of Solomon Northup's book "Twelve Years a Slave" on the shelves of a popular bookstore near the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, the bookstore owner practically gave it to her for 25 cents..
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"12 Years a Slave" won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture.
In his acceptance speech for the honor, director McQueen thanked Dr.
Eakin: "I'd like to thank this amazing historian, Sue Eakin, whose life, she gave her life's work to preserving Solomon's book..
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Northup had little but praise for the Ford who bought him for $1,000 at a New Orleans slave market.
In one passage of "Twelve Years a Slave",".
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Northrup wrote of Ford, "there never was a more kind, noble, candid, Christian man than William Ford." .
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Joseph Willis (1758-1854) kept a diary.
He entrusted William Prince Ford with his diary.
Notes from the diary were arranged into a manuscript and later copied by early Louisiana Baptist author, W.
E.
Paxton, in 1858, for his book "A History of the Baptist of Louisiana, from the Earliest Times to the Present," (1888).
Paxton admits most of his facts concerning Louisiana Baptists are from Joseph Willis' diary and Louisiana Association Minutes..
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Joseph's diary and Ford's manuscript are both lost today.
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Ford also made remarks in his manuscript based upon the diary.
One of Ford's observations is recorded by Paxton and is very revealing concerning Ford's admiration of Joseph Willis.
"Nearly all the churches now left in the association were gathered either directly or indirectly by the labors of Mr.
Willis." Ford added, "It was truly affecting to hear him [Joseph Willis] speak of them as his children; and with all the affection of a father allude to some schisms and divisions that had arisen in the past and to warn them against the occurrence of anything of the kind in the future.
But when he spoke of the fact that two or three of them had already become extinct, his voice failed and he was compelled to give utterance to his feelings by his tears; and surely the heart must have been hard that could not be melted by the manifestation of so much affection, for he wept not alone.".
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Ford was later excommunicated from Spring Hill Baptist Church that Joseph Willis founded.
But, Ford remained a lifelong friend with his mentor Joseph Willis.
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..
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Campbell visited the congregation in 1857, at which time Campbell was favorably impressed by the fellowship practiced between blacks and whites in the congregation.
Ford is buried in Cheneyville, Louisiana, in the Old Cheney cemetery.
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~ Randy Willis.
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Web sites: .
http://josephwillis.net .
http://twiceaslave.com.
http://threewindsblowing.com.
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Amazon author's page: http://amazon.com/author/randywillis

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