ABSTRACT This article reimagines the transatlantic climate of abolition by a focus on a specific incident. Wilson Armistead, a Yorkshire Quaker merchant, abolitionist, and prolific author, hosted the African American fugitives Ellen and William Craft in his house in Leeds in 1851, when they were on a lecture tour of the UK. In a typically quiet (yet bold) abolitionist act of what I call guerrilla inscription, he ensured that they were recorded in the UK census as fugitives. As the Crafts were well-known figures who received sympathetic attention, this unprecedented action was widely covered in the press. Yet subsequently it passed into obscurity. My paper explores this forgotten story to ask how state documents can be subverted for means other than which they are intended, and to reflect on what happens when abolitionists and academics meet in the archive.

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游击队题词：废除大西洋和1851年的人口普查

摘要本文通过关注特定事件来重新构想废除大西洋两岸的气候。约克郡贵格会商人，废奴主义者和多产的作家威尔逊·阿米斯特（Wilson Armistead）于1851年在英国进行一次巡回演讲时，在其位于利兹的房子里接待了非洲裔美国人逃亡者艾伦（Ellen）和威廉·克拉夫特（William Craft）。在我称之为游击队铭文的典型的安静（但还是大胆）的废奴主义行为中，他确保了在英国人口普查中将它们记录为逃犯。由于工艺品是受到同情关注的知名人物，因此这种前所未有的举动在新闻界被广泛报道。然而后来它变得晦涩难懂。我的论文探索了这个被遗忘的故事，询问如何将状态文档颠倒为非预期的方式，