C. F. Hatcher (slave Trader)
Charles F. Hatcher, typically advertising as C. F. Hatcher, was a 19th-century American slaver dealing out of Natchez, Mississippi, and New Orleans, 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 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 Bernard M. Campbell and Walter L. Campbell, Walter L. Campbell, C. M. Rutherford, Joseph A. Beard, Joseph Bruin, and Thomas Foster (slave trader), Thomas Foster, Hatche ...
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