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C. F. Hatcher
American slave trader (c. 1814ā1869) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles F. Hatcher, typically advertising as C. F. Hatcher, was a 19th-century American slaver dealing out of Natchez, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana. He also worked as a trader of financial instruments, specie, and stocks, and as a land agent, with a special interest in selling Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas real estate to speculators and settlers.
C. F. Hatcher | |
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![]() Mississippi Free Trader,
Natchez, February 18, 1861 | |
Born | c.ā1814 Virginia, U.S. |
Died | 1869 Mississippi, U.S. |
Occupation | Slave trader |
C. F. Hatcher started working as a slave trader when he was 16 years old, and became wealthy harvesting people from Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and transporting them south for resale to cotton and sugar planters. His father Charles Hatcher before him may have been a slave trader, and he eventually worked alongside his younger half-brother John T. Hatcher in Cotton Kingdom slave markets of Louisiana and Mississippi. In company with Walter L. Campbell, C. M. Rutherford, Joseph A. Beard, Joseph Bruin, and Thomas Foster, Hatcher has been described as one of the "more notorious" slave traders working in New Orleans in the decade immediately preceding the American Civil War. Hatcher is also the only known "negro trader" who became a recruiter running an employment office after the end of slavery in the United States.