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.

"[2] Hatcher was selling at the Forks of the Road slave market outside Natchez, Mississippi in 1846, offering "newly imported Maryland Negroes".

[3] 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.

[5] As reported in the Anti-Slavery Bugle 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 [December 23, 1858], from the effects of which she died in a short time.

"[6] French abolitionist Pierre-Suzanne-Augustin Cochin covered the murder in his book L'Abolition de l'esclavage, republishing an account in the New Orleans Bee that "caused some sensation in that city".