An American Planter

An American Planter
Title An American Planter PDF eBook
Author Martha Jane Brazy
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 250
Release 2006-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 0807142751

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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 South and the North. Duncan grew up in an elite Pennsylvania family with strong business ties in Philadelphia. There was little indication, though, that he would become a cosmopolitan entrepreneur who would own over fifteen plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana, collectively owning more than two thousand slaves. With style and substance, Martha Jane Brazy describes both the development of Duncan's businesses and the lives of the slaves on whose labor his empire was constructed. According to Brazy, Duncan was a hybrid, not fully a southerner or a northerner. He was also, Brazy shows, a paradox. Although he put down deep roots in Natchez, his sphere of influence was national in scope. Although his wealth was greatly dependent on the slaves he owned, he predicted a clash over the issue of slave ownership nearly three decades before the onset of the Civil War. 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.

The American Cotton Planter

The American Cotton Planter
Title The American Cotton Planter PDF eBook
Author N. B. Cloud
Publisher
Pages 446
Release 1836
Genre Agriculture
ISBN

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The American Cotton Planter and the Soil of the South

The American Cotton Planter and the Soil of the South
Title The American Cotton Planter and the Soil of the South PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 424
Release 1857
Genre Agriculture
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The Planter's Victim; Or, Incidents of American Slavery ...

The Planter's Victim; Or, Incidents of American Slavery ...
Title The Planter's Victim; Or, Incidents of American Slavery ... PDF eBook
Author Samuel Mosheim Smucker
Publisher
Pages 392
Release 1855
Genre Enslaved persons
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The Southern Planter

The Southern Planter
Title The Southern Planter PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 874
Release 1904
Genre Agriculture
ISBN

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The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer

The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer
Title The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 504
Release 1890
Genre Sugar
ISBN

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Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer

Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer
Title Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 454
Release 1903
Genre Agriculture
ISBN

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