Aaron H. Forrest | |
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![]() "Negroes for Sale", Vicksburg Whig, March 21, 1860 | |
Born | c. 1830 Mississippi, U.S. |
Died | April 1864 |
Other names | A. H. Forrest |
Occupation | Slave trader |
Aaron H. Forrest (c. 1830 – April 1864) was one of the six Forrest brothers who engaged in the interregional slave trade in the United States prior to the American Civil War. He may have also owned or managed cotton plantations in Mississippi. He led a Confederate cavalry unit composed of volunteers from the Yazoo River region of Mississippi during the American Civil War. He died in 1864, apparently from illness.