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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
Thomas Clarkson, “Petition to the House of Commons,” Emancipator and Free American, September 14, 1843.
Thomas Clarkson, “Petition to the House of Commons,” Emancipator and Free American, September 14, 1843. PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sheweth – That having devoted fifty-nine years of his life to the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, he hopes that he...
Bills of Sale, Personal Record Book A, pp. 23-24, Washington County Archives, Washington County Courthouse, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Personal Record Book A, p. 23, Washington County Courthouse, Fayetteville, AR. “Know all men by these present that I Jacob Cartwright of the County of Washington & State of Arkansas have this day bargained, sold, conveyed, and delivered to Willis Wallace of the...
Transcripts from the Bahamas
“Fugitive Slaves in Upper Canada,” Liberator, April 21, 1843. On Saturday, the 4th inst, a Deputation of the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and their friends waited on Lord Ashburton by appointment, relative to the bearing of the tenth...