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 "Lands and Slaves for Sale" The Weekly Natchez Courier, August 31, 1827 | |
| Born | 1762 Guilford County, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | April 14, 1829 Near Bayou Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, U.S. |
Joseph Erwin was an American race horse owner, owner of cotton and sugar plantations, and, most likely, an interstate slave trader. He is best known for the enmity between him and Andrew Jackson. Their conflict over their competing thoroughbred racehorses, Erwin's Ploughboy and Jackson's Truxton, led to the fatal duel between Jackson and Erwin's son-in-law Charles Dickinson.