Historians In Awe Over Discovery At Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Property

Dr. Duncan’s Dueling Views On Slavery

Dr. Stephen Duncan was originally from Pennsylvania where he earned a medical degree. He later became a banker and cotton planter and moved to Mississippi. He owned thousands of acres of land and he enslaved over 1000+ black human beings throughout the 1850s.

He used his slaves to cultivate both cotton and sugar crops and through them, he became the wealthiest cotton planter in the entire Southern United States. It is said, though, that in 1830 he and Louisiana Senator James Brown purchased land in Canada in order to help freed black slaves from Cincinnati find a new community which was called the Wilberforce Colony.