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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.
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 […]
Dec 1, 2006 · 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.
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Learn about Stephen Duncan (Class of 1805), one of the largest slaveholders in American history and a prominent backer of Dickinson College. Explore his biography, his involvement in the American Colonization Society, and his letters to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
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.
Jan 1, 2007 · Martha Jane Brazy's deceptively brief biography of Stephen Duncan offers a well-researched, engagingly written account of a prominent American planter and entrepreneur.
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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.
