Joseph Erwin
Joseph Erwin (1762April 14, 1829) was an American racehorse owner, owner of cotton and sugar plantations, and a
slave trader. In 1807 he had a trunk stolen at the
Natchez, Mississippi boat landing containing six weeks worth of "bills of sale for negroes" and 50-odd promissory notes totaling . He is best known for the enmity between him and future U.S. president
Andrew Jackson. Their conflict over their competing thoroughbred racehorses, Erwin's Ploughboy and Jackson's Truxton, led to the fatal 1806 duel between Jackson and Erwin's son-in-law
Charles Dickinson. Erwin moved to Louisiana where he owned as many as seven plantations and hundreds of slaves. He ended up heavily in debt. Erwin died by suicide in 1829.
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