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John T. Hatcher

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in 1846, offering "newly imported Maryland Negroes". An ad of 1847 advertised that Hatcher's stand had ties to a "trading house" in New Orleans allowing on-demand delivery of special orders of particular types of human beings. C. F. and J. T. Hatcher were residents of New Orleans, Louisiana at the
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Hatcher's testimony in an 1843 court case is a valuable primary source on how slave traders dressed the enslaved for sale and on the nature of the domestic work performed by enslaved women in a slave pen. According to historian Alexandra J. Finley, "Male slave traders outsourced the traditionally
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feminine task of laundry to either enslaved women or free women in the neighborhood whom they paid. In addition to their domestic labor, the slave traders relied on the expertise of  these women to identify and report 'unnatural discharges' when they returned with the laundered clothes."
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of Ohio in 1859, "John T. Hatcher, keeper of a slave yard in New Orleans, whipped a negro woman named Eudora for an hour and a quarter, on , from the effects of which she died in a short time. Hatcher fled, and at last account had not been arrested." French abolitionist
198:, and "Mr. Harvey deposed that the cracking of the whip was heard during about an hour and a half, with one interruption of five or six minutes." Hatcher was apprehended in 247: 242: 195: 575: 191: 202:, in March 1859. After trying and failing to bribe the arresting officers to let him go, Hatcher was later released from custody by the 615: 610: 590: 595: 600: 437: 412: 462: 124:. Two days before Christmas 1858, he whipped an enslaved woman to death and fled New Orleans to avoid the consequences. 523: 307: 112: – June 7, 1866) was a 19th-century American slave trader. He was the younger brother of slave trader 332: 375: 237: 605: 492: 232: 179: 144: 270: 159: 203: 32: 156:. They lived in the same household (likely a boarding house) and both listed their occupation as "trader". 212: 84: 121: 580: 207: 533: 585: 148: 117: 8: 220: 80: 529: 357: 173: 545: 537: 519: 506: 133: 58: 153: 496: 549: 569: 516:
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said "strikingly indicates the power of money to protect an accused man".
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that "caused some sensation in that city". The whipping took place at
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Norfolk, Virginia
Summit
Pike County, Mississippi
C. F. Hatcher
Natchez, Mississippi
New Orleans, Louisiana
Norfolk, Virginia
Forks of the Road slave market
Natchez, Mississippi
1850 U.S. census

Anti-Slavery Bugle
Pierre-Suzanne-Augustin Cochin
R. W. Long
Gravier Street
St. Louis, Missouri
Governor of Missouri
Governor of Louisiana
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Summit, Mississippi
List of American slave traders
History of slavery in Louisiana
Slave markets and slave jails in the United States
Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States


"Died"
Finley (2020)
"For Sale"

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