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Follow Hackett's Flight
A primary problem in trying to reconstruct Hackett’s flight is that there are few records of his words and thoughts. This problem is rooted in the racism that undergirded chattel slavery and created most of its archival record. Hackett’s flight is therefore reconstructed using other voices, including abolitionists (both white and black), journalists, colonial and elected officials, and slave owners and their apologists.
The Documents
Lewis Tappan to Edward Cross, December 2? [illegible], 1842, Edward Cross Papers, South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
Lewis Tappan to Edward Cross, December 2? [illegible], 1842, Edward Cross Papers (A2015-041.0005), South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. New York, Dec. 2? [illegible], 1842 Hon. Edward Cross of C. Sir, Mr. Giddings...
“Adventures: Escape of a Slave,” Peoria Register and North-Western Gazette, May 27, 1842.
PEORIA REGISTER AND NORTH-WESTERN GAZETTEER. Vol. VI. PEORIA, ILLINOIS…FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1842 No. 9. Adventures. ESCAPE OF A SLAVE. In July last, Nelson Hacket, the slave of Alfred Wallace, living in Washington county, Arkansas, committed a rape on...
“The Case of Nelson Hackett,” Western Herald, August 18, 1843.
From a New York paper, we learn that a negro against whom eight indictments were found in Arkansas in July last, and who escaped to Canada, was brought to St. Louis on the 26 ultimo. By the steamer Mermaid, from Peoria, and lodged in jail until he can be removed to...