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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
Clipping from the Montreal Gazette, June 18, 1842, reprinted in Western Herald, June 30, 1842, p. 3.
WESTERN HERALD. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1842. THE CASE OF NELSON HACKETT. The circumstances attending the delivery of this person to the authorities of Arkansas, having been brought up in the House of Commons in England, and having merely elicited the fact that his...
“Willis Wallace and the Fayetteville War,” in Charles Summerfield [Alfred Arrington],The Lives and Adventures of Desperadoes of the South-West (New York: William Graham, Brick Church, 1849), especially pp. 79-86.
CHAPTER VII. WILLIS S. WALLIS, AND THE FAYETTEVILLE WAR. AT this stage of my hasty sketches, I sit down to paint scenes in which I was myself also a chief actor. I have no need here to recur to the dim twinkling so memory. I find the imperishable facts garnered...