January 06, 1753, in Surry, Virgiinia.Ī LAN ( E PSE) 1 ) was born 1671, and died Januin in Surry, Virgiinia. He married M ARY KENT, daughter of H UMPHREY KENT and J OANE. He married M ARIE EPPS.Ĭhild of F RANCIS EPPS and M ARIE EPPS is:Ī LAN ( E PSE) 1 ) was born 1626, and died 1679. F RANCIS ( E PES) 3 EPPS (J OHN ( E PPES) 2 ,Ī LAN ( E PSE) 1 ) died 1674 in Charles City, Virginia. He married T HOMAZINE FISHER, daughter of A LEXANDER FISHER and K ATHERINE MAPLESDEN.Ĭhild of J OHN EPPS and T HOMAZINE FISHER is:ģ. J OHN ( E PPES) 2 EPPS (A LAN ( E PSE) 1 ) died Novemin in Kent, England. Home About Us Blog Genealogy Recipes Gardening Manners and Etiquette Real Estate Destinations HistoryĪrt Hunting and Fishing Photojournalism Southern Furniture Maker Inspiration Write Life Opinion Contact-ġ. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.A Downhome Perspective on All Things Southern “On the whole, I think the film is great in that it gets the story out there.” “Slavery was America’s greatest shame,” said Barrios, a space shuttle engineer. “William Ford married into that,” said Barrios, 46.Īnd even if Barrios has some beefs with “12 Years,” she’s still a fan of the Oscar-nominated work. The wife and her brother Robert were known to have regularly terrorized field hands. “There was tremendous fear because of the purported murder plot and there also was a growing problem of slaves absconding.”Įakin added: “Violence had worked in the past as a means of control but now the worry for slave owners like Ford was that if you were violent to a slave, he might kill you.”Īnne Marie Ford Barrios said she believes her great-great-great-grandfather was a kind man - and pawned off any additional cruelty suffered by Northrup and other servants to Ford’s wife Martha Ford. “Compared to some sadistic masters, Ford was relatively benevolent but this was part of a strategy that he devised to try to preserve the slave system’s status quo,” Eakin said. Many plantation owners of the time were still shaken by the 1831 uprising of Virginia slave Nat Turner, who led a rebellion that killed dozens of Southern whites.Įakin said he believes Ford was a “benevolent” master, in hopes of keeping the peace. Louisiana historian Frank Eakin said it’s entirely possible Ford was, by 19th century standards, more humane than other slave owners - but not due to humanitarian concerns. In one passage of “12 years,” Northrup wrote of Ford, “there never was a more kind, noble, candid, Christian man than William Ford.” There could be a morsel of truth in in Ford’s protest. That doesn’t make it right or moral by today’s standards but back then it wasn’t an ethical issue. “He was born at a particular time in history when slavery was accepted throughout the South. “By all accounts, my great-great-grandfather treated his slaves well and did his best for them,” Ford’s 77-year-old great-great grandson William Marcus Ford told The Mail on Sunday newspaper. The critically acclaimed movie – based on the book by former slave Solomon Northrup – cast William Prince Ford as a loathsome hypocrite who preached the word of God while allowing his field overseers to brutalize slaves. Why there are 9 Best Picture nominees at this year's Oscarsĭescendants of a Louisiana plantation owner rallied to his defense, insisting that the Oscar-nominated movie “12 Years a Slave” unfairly portrayed him as a tyrant. Lupita Nyong'o wins Oscar for her first movie With '12 Years a Slave,' Oscars get it right this year NY Times corrects '12 Years a Slave' article - 161 years later
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