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2 1862 newspapers NATHANIEL GORDON CONVICTED of IMPORTING NEGR0 SLAVES Executed:
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2 1862 newspapers with back page reports announcing that Captain NATHANIEL GORDON has been CONVICTED of IMPORTING NEGR0 SLAVES, sentenced to death, and laterExecuted

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SEE PHOTO-----TWO COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPERs, theFriend(Philadelphia, PA)datedDecember 7, 1861 and March 1, 1862,withcompelling Civil War era Black Social Justice, as Gordon becomes the one and only American Slave Trader executedfor his ccrimes!This historic piece containsseveral reports of Civil War action across the war-ravaged country.

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Nathaniel Gordon (February 6, 1826 – February 21, 1862) was the only slave trader in the U.S. to be tried, convicted, and executed for having \"engaged in the slave trade,\" under the Piracy Law of 1820.

In 1848, Gordon\'s boat, Juliet, was searched by the U.S. Navy for evidence of slave trading. After no evidence of slave trading could be found, Gordon was released from their custody. However, there were allegations that Gordon had indeed gone to Africa, taken a cargo of slaves, and returned to Brazil, where slavery was still legal at the time.

In 1851, Gordon, captaining the Camargo, went on another expedition from Brazil to Africa. Gordon took on 500 Africans and set sail for Brazil. He had to take numerous measures to avoid naval patrol ships. Gordon was nevertheless chased by a British man-of-war. After arriving in Brazil and dropping off the Africans, Gordon burned his ship to destroy evidence. The Africans were seized and some of Gordon\'s men were arrested and charged. Gordon himself escaped by dressing into women\'s clothes.

Shortly after the Camargo voyage, Gordon, captaining Ottawa, made a slaving voyage to Cuba, where slavery was also still legal, with a cargo of Africans. Only about 25 percent of the Africans survived, with Gordon later claiming that a rival trader had poisoned them. After landing in Cuba, Gordon burned his ship afterwards to destroy evidence.

In late July 1860, Gordon set sail for the west coast of Africa. On August 7, 1860, he loaded 897 slaves aboard Erie at Sharks Point, Congo River, West Africa, \"of whom only 172 were men and 162 grown women. Gordon ... preferred to carry children because they could not rise up to avenge his cruelties.\" According to reports, Gordon was responsible for at least 29 deaths. Those who died were thrown overboard.

Erie was captured by the USS Mohican 50 miles from a Cuban port on August 8, 1860. The slaves were taken to Liberia, the American colony established in West Africa by the American Colonization Society for the settlement of free blacks from the United States. Gordon was extradited to New York to face a federal trial.

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