Slayden is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States.

[1] It is located along U.S. Route 72 in northeast Marshall County, about 35 miles from Memphis, Tennessee.

The community was settled in the 1860's and was originally known as "Gourd Neck", then "Slayden's Crossing".

[2] In 1935, Ab Young, a black tenant farmer, was lynched in Slayden by a group of 50 white men.

[3] Although members of the mob had provided their names and addresses to two reporters from the Memphis Press-Scimitar,[3] the authorities took no action because they claimed they had no clues to the identify of the killers.