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Stephen Duncan was born in Pennsylvania and became a major planter and banker in Mississippi, in the antebellum S.
Stephen Duncan was born on March 4, 1787, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to John Duncan and Sarah Postlethwaite. His family were early settlers to the Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania and his grandfather received a land grant from King George III of Great Britain. In 1793, Duncan's father was killed in a duel when Stephen was only six years old.
Stephen Duncan is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he is a member of the Control group. He is also a Fellow of St Hugh’s College.
Apr 9, 2023 · Share 1. Stephen Duncan was a wealthy plantation owner and politician in the antebellum South who owned hundreds of enslaved people and built his fortune through the labor of enslaved people. He was born in 1787 in North Carolina and moved to Mississippi in 1820 to establish a cotton plantation. He eventually acquired several plantations in ...
Correspondence includes letters (1863-1866) from Stephen Duncan, Jr., family friend F. Surget, and family members concerning social, political, and economic problems of the Reconstruction. Topics include attitudes toward freedmen, devastation caused by the war, Confederate sympathies after the war, and cotton cultivation and trade.
Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787–1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan's multifaceted personal networks in both the ...
Stephen Duncan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and studied Molecular Biology at the University of Glasgow. He received his Ph.D./D.Phil. from Wolfson College at Oxford University in 1992 for working on the mechanisms that controlled transmission of the poxvirus, vaccinia, with Dr Geoffrey Smith. He then moved to The Rockefeller University in ...
