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The city council will consider renaming the road in honor of a slave who escaped Fayetteville in 1841.

FAYETTEVILLE -- The City Council member sponsoring a measure to rename Archibald Yell Boulevard says the move is meant to shed light on a largely untold story in local history.

The Fayetteville City Council is considering renaming Archibald Yell Boulevard to Nelson Hackett Boulevard.

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A new episode of Undisciplined is out today, and we hear from associate professor of history Michael Pierce about Nelson Hackett and his escape to Canada.

Nelson Hackett fled Fayetteville, Arkansas, on horseback in July 1841 seeking freedom in Canada, but he was extradited.

FAYETTEVILLE -- Most residents and visitors to Fayetteville probably are unaware of Nelson Hacketts story, but a historical marker planned for the downtown square aims to tell them.

This summer the University of Arkansas Humanities Center will host a pair of NEH-supported summer teaching institutes for K-12 teachers from around the

UA joins National Underground Railway Network with its Nelson Hackett Project UA joins National Underground Railway Network with its Nelson Hackett Project National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. The project, headed by associate history professor Michael Pierce, provides digital history about Nelson Hackett. In 1841, he escaped enslavement in Fayetteville and fled to Canada, where he expected to be free. But he was extradited and returned to bondage in the U.S. His case ener...

Event Description Join this examination of the plight of Nelson Hackett, an enslaved man who escaped from his Fayetteville owner in 1841, taking with him a horse, saddle, coat, and watch. Hackett made his way to Canada, but his owner, Alfred Wallace, pursued him and extradited him for theft. The extradition request set off an international dispute involving the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In the end, Canada returned Hackett to slavery. But abolitionists in the U. S. and the U...