An American planter : Stephen Duncan of antebellum Natchez and New York / Martha Jane Brazy

Author: Brazy, Martha Jane, 1965-
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
Copyright Date: ©2006
Physical Description: xiii, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

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Series

Southern biography series

Contents

Prologue : "an important crisis is at hand" -- "To seek his fortunes in the distant South" : Stephen Duncan's migration from Pennsylvania to the Mississippi territory -- Laying the foundations of mastery : land, slaves, capital, and the network of elites -- Slaves, politics, and family : Stephen Duncan and the challenges to mastery -- "We will one day have our throats cut in this county" : Stephen Duncan and the challenges of slavery -- Power and position : redefining economic self in boom and bust times -- Public duties and private worlds : the roles and dynamics of the Duncan family -- Survival of the fittest : preservation of wealth and family -- An empire realized : the concentration of wealth and the negotiation of shifting networks -- Underground networks : slave communities and slavery on the Duncan plantations -- Epilogue : "we are in the midst of perils".

Subject(s)

Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867
Plantation owners—Mississippi—Natchez—Biography
Slaveholders—Mississippi—Natchez—Biography
Slavery—Mississippi—Natchez—History—19th century
Natchez (Miss.)—Social conditions—19th century
Natchez (Miss.)—Race relations
Natchez (Miss.)—Biography

ISBN

0807131415 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807131411 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.

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