Hope H. Slatter | |
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![]() "Cash for Negroes - HOPE H. SLATTER" (Baltimore Sun, Sept. 5, 1838) | |
Born | Georgia, U.S. | June 11, 1790
Died | September 15, 1853 Alabama, U.S. | (aged 63)
Occupation(s) | Slave trader, planter |
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]
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