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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RUNAWAY SLAVE.) [HACKETT, NELSON.] Copies of a Despatch from the Governor General of Canada . . .Relative to the Surrender of Nelson Hackett, a Person of Colour, on the Demand of the Authorities of the United States. . . 10 pages, folio, sewn. London: House of Commons, 1842
a very interesting runaway slave case. Nelson Hackett was an Arkansas slave whose 1841 escape to Canada (then a colony of Great Britain) led to a protracted and nasty campaign by his owner to have him extradited to the United States. The British had initially refused as they routinely did with fugitive slaves. A second request with the added charge of theft caused the Governor, Sir Charles Bagot to accede. Hackett's extradition aroused the ire of abolitionists on both sides of the border. A handsome man, Hackett had been his owner's valet, and the former seemed to be obsessed with him, calling him a 'Negro Dandy.' He personally chased him through Michigan into upper Canada. After the governor of Canada finally agreed to extradite him, Hackett was bound and gagged by agents of his owner and spirited across the border to a Detroit jail. Little is known of Hackett's fate. He was never actually tried on the charges that secured his extradition. Another slave who escaped from this owner reported that, upon Hackett's return to Arkansas, he was bound and flogged several times, the first time in front of all the slaves. Hackett was then sold to someone in the Texas interior. Abolitionist societies in Britain attempting to purchase and free him could find no trace of him after this transaction.
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