Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) became a major planter and banker in Mississippi, migrating there from his home state of Pennsylvania after getting a medical degree. He became the wealthiest cotton planter in the South prior to the American Civil War, investing in railroads and Midwest lands. He owned thousands of acres of land and more than 1,000 slaves in the 1850s, cultivating both cotton and sugar cane as commodity crops.In 1830 he and James Brown, a wealthy US Senator from Louisiana, paid for the purchase of land in Canada to aid American free blacks from Cincinnati found a new community, which became known as the Wilberforce Colony. In the 1830s, he was among the co-founders of the Mississippi Colonization Society in the 1830s, and helped purchase land in West Africa for removal of free people of color from the state. Wikipedia
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