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Stephen Duncan (March 4, 1787 – January 29, 1867) was an American planter and banker in Mississippi. He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District , Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves.
Yet another son, John Duncan, married into the Postlethwaites, one of Carlisle’s wealthiest slaveholding families. John died as the result of a duel in 1793. One of his sons, the younger Stephen Duncan, was the family member who found the greatest wealth, as a planter in Mississippi.
Dec 1, 2006 · Perhaps more than any other planter studied, Duncan contradicts historians' definition of the southern slaveholding aristocracy. By connecting and contrasting the networks of this elite planter and those he enslaved, Brazy provides new insights into the slaveocracy of antebellum America.
An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York. In this Book. Additional Information. ... Stephen Duncan (1787–1867) was a landowner ...
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Stephen Duncan was an American planter and banker in Mississippi. He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves. He owned 15 cotton and sugar plantations, served as President of the Bank of Mississippi, and held ...
Jan 1, 2007 · Stephen Duncan was, according to Brazy, an "American planter." Brazy engages the historiography on planters most explicitly when discussing Duncan as a slave master. Despite vigorous scholarly ...
Stephen Duncan, an entrepreneur, a financier, and one of the largest slave owners in the antebellum South, was born on 4 March 1787 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Duncan, the second of five children of John Duncan and Sarah Eliza Postlethwaite Duncan, grew up in Carlisle and lived a comfortable childhood but received an emotional blow at […]
