Shadrack F. Slatter
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Shadrack Fluellen Slatter, usually listed as S. F. Slatter in advertisements and often called Col. Slatter in later life, was a 19th-century American slave trader and capitalist. In the 1830s and 1840
Chartres (previously Moreau) and Esplanade, illustration made 1866 (New Orleans Notarial Archive)
"Georgia Negroes for Sale" Macon Weekly Telegraph, March 10, 1832
"130 Negroes, Just Arrived" The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, December 19, 1843
Slatter lived at the City Hotel, located at the northeast corner of Common and Camp (University of Houston Libraries)
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.
Shadrack F. Slatter
…Walker in November 1857, Soulé and "Col. Slatter" posted the $2,000 bond. Walker jumped bail. More than 30 years later, in 1890, Slatter's nephew Hope H. Slatter II reached a deal with the U.S. government to pay $300 to fulfill the guarantee. Appleton Oaksmith…
Hope H. Slatter II - 1866 passport application