Hope H. Slatter

Hope H. Slatter
"Cash for Negroes - HOPE H. SLATTER" (Baltimore Sun, Sept. 5, 1838)
Born(1790-06-11)June 11, 1790
Georgia, U.S.
DiedSeptember 15, 1853(1853-09-15) (aged 63)
Alabama, U.S.
Occupation(s)Slave trader, planter
Manifest of a coastwise slave shipment made from Baltimore to New Orleans by Hope H. Slatter, on the ship Scotia in September 1843
The first group of 66 out of the 73 souls aboard is organized by height; beginning with Author Goodhand, age 21, 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), ending with Caroline Potts, age nine, 3 ft 11 in (1.19 m); Caroline is the only person with the surname Potts on the manifest

Hope Hull Slatter (June 11, 1790 – September 15, 1853) was a 19th-century American slave trader with an "extensive establishment and private jail, for the keeping of slaves" on Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] He gained "wealth and infamy from the trade in blood,"[2] and sold thousands of people from the Chesapeake region to parts south.[3] Slatter, in company with Austin Woolfolk, Bernard M. Campbell, and Joseph S. Donovan has been described as one of the "tycoons of the slave trade" in the Upper South, collectively "responsible for the forced departures of approximately 9,000 captives from Baltimore to New Orleans."[4]

He worked in partnership with his younger brother Shadrack F. Slatter, who maintained their New Orleans sales operation.[5][6] Slatter's son Henry F. Slatter was also involved in the family slave-trading business.[7]

  1. ^ Slatter, Hope H. (October 1896). "Cash for Negroes". The Annals of Iowa. 2 (7): 561. doi:10.17077/0003-4827.2154. ISSN 0003-4827.
  2. ^ "Slatter". Daily Free Democrat. October 4, 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
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  4. ^ Williams (2020), p. 277.
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  7. ^ Williams (2020), p. 296.