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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 Hackett's story, but a historical marker planned for the downtown square aims to tell them.
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 energized abolitionists, who fought to change Canada’s extradition policies so no other freedom-seeker...