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Slave Trader Hope Hull Slatter Advertisement
Baltimore, July 15, 1843
NEGROES WANTED.
The highest cash prices will at all times be given for NEGROES of both sexes, that are slaves for life, and good titles. My office is in PRATT STREET, between Sharp and Howard sts., No. 86, where my agent Jonathan M. Wilson, can be seen at all times. All persons having Negroes to sell would do well to see me before they dispose of them, as I am now the largest dealer who is engaged in the trade, and always buying and shipping to the New Orleans market.
I will also receive and keep Negroes at twenty-five cents each per day, and forward them to any Southern port at the request of the owner. My establishment is large, comfortable, airy and all above ground, and kept in complete order, with a large yard for exercise, and is the strongest and most splendid building of the kind in the United States.
HOPE H. SLATTER.
July 15, 1843N.B. All communications are promptly attended to..
Source: Baltimore Sun,14 July 1843.
Editor's Note: Hope Hull Slatter's offices and slave prison were indeed one of the busiest in Baltimore. Slatter advertised regularly to purchase enslaved persons from Maryland and Virginia slave holders, many of whom were shipped to the deep south to sugar and rice plantations, a veritable death sentence for many northern slaves. The advertisement above was published in other regional newspapers.
Read more about Slatter's operation and facilties here.
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