Image is of the fireplace, located in the Slatter jail yard, that was used for cooking.

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This file appears in: Site of Slatter/Campbell Slave Jail
Image is of the fireplace, located in the Slatter jail yard, that was used for cooking.
This file appears in: Site of Slatter/Campbell Slave Jail

By Richard F. Messick
Hope Hall Slatter, after working in the slave trade in Georgia for a number of years, moved to Baltimore in 1835 and started building up a business of selling enslaved workers to the Southern market. At this time, cotton was vital to the nation’s…