Byrd Hill

Slave trade in the Memphis, Tennessee, city directory, 1855

Byrd Hill (November 18, 1800 – September 28, 1872) was a slave trader of Tennessee and Mississippi prior to the American Civil War. Byrd Hill has been described as one of the "big four" slave traders in the centrally located city of Memphis on the Mississippi River.[1] Hill was partners for a time with Nathan Bedford Forrest and is believed to have resold six of the Africans illegally trafficked to the United States on the Wanderer in 1859. Hill also made a fleeting appearance in Harriet Beecher Stowe's A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.

  1. ^ Mooney, Chase C. (1971). Slavery in Tennessee. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8371-5522-7 – via HathiTrust.