Slaughter is a town in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States.

The town's name is from an Illinois Central Railroad Depot for the farm of the Slaughter family.

[5] figures in the title of Michael Ondaatje's novel about jazz player Buddy Bolden entitled Coming Through Slaughter.

[7] The town is bordered on the south by the city of Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Clinton, the East Feliciana Parish seat, is 14 miles (23 km) to the northeast.

[8] As of the 2020 United States census, 1,035 people, 435 households, and 298 families reside in the town.