Hope H. Slatter II
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Hope H. Slatter II was a convicted murderer, municipal police chief, Confederate States Army veteran, and one of the sons of notable American slave trader Hope H. Slatter.
Hope H. Slatter II - 1866 passport application
Hope H. Slatter
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Hope Hull Slatter 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. He gained "wealth and i
Hope H. Slatter II
…after 1900) was a convicted murderer, municipal police chief, Confederate States Army veteran, and one of the sons of notable American slave trader Hope H. Slatter. Slatter was born in 1841 in Baltimore, before his father sold out of the slaving business and became a real estate investor in Mobile, Alabama. Slatter…
"Cash for Negroes - HOPE H. SLATTER" (Baltimore Sun, Sept. 5, 1838)
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