Documents & Transcripts
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Hiram Wilson, “The Case of Nelson Hackett,” Anti-Slavery Reporter, January 11, 1843, p. 2.
Charles H. Stewart, “Case of Nelson Hackett,” Anti-Slavery Reporter, September 21, 1842, p. 150.
Charles H. Stewart, “Case of Nelson Hackett,” Anti-Slavery Reporter, September 21, 1842, p. 151.
“Canada: Copies of a Despatch from the Governor-General of Canada to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, of the 20th of January Last, Relative to the Surrender of Nelson Hackett, a Person of Colour, on the Demand of the Authorities of the United States, as a Fugitive from Justice,” (London: Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1842).
“Adventures: Escape of a Slave,” Peoria Register and North-Western Gazette, May 27, 1842.
“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.
Bills of Sale, Personal Record Book A, pp. 23-24, Washington County Archives, Washington County Courthouse, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
“The Arrest: Extract of a letter written by Mr. Work,” in Narrative of Facts Respecting Alanson Work. Jas. E. Burr & Geo. Thompson, Prisoners in the Missouri Penitentiary, for the Alleged Crime of Negro Stealing (Quincy, IL: Quincy Whig Office, 1842), 6-7.
William C. Munro and Robert Banks, “The Extraordinary Conduct of the Governor of Canada,” Emancipator and Free American, April 28, 1842.
“The Case of Nelson Hackett,” Western Herald, August 18, 1843.
Joshua Leavitt, “The Case of Nelson Hacket,“ Anti-Slavery Reporter, February 22, 1843, p. 30.
Lewis Tappan to Edward Cross, December 2? [illegible], 1842, Edward Cross Papers, South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
Clipping from the Montreal Gazette, June 18, 1842, reprinted in Western Herald, June 30, 1842, p. 3.
“Letter from Hiram Wilson,” Liberator, June 6, 1851.
“Address of the Colored People of Hamilton to Sir Allan Napier MacNab,” Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
“Arkansas,” Emancipator and Free American, January 19, 1843.
Anti-Slavery Reporter, October and November 2, 1842
Thomas Clarkson, “Petition to the House of Commons,” Emancipator and Free American, September 14, 1843.
Annual Report of the Colored Vigilant Committee of Detroit
Document Transcripts from the Bahamas
“Correspondence between the Hon. Sir Allen Macnab and certain Colored Inhabitants of Upper Canada,” Liberator, October 21, 1842.
“Colonial Intelligence,” Anti-Slavery Reporter, February 22, 1843, pp. 31-32.
Clipping from the Montreal Gazette, June 18, 1842, reprinted in Western Herald, June 30, 1842, p. 3