Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader by Ron Soodalter

Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader

Ron Soodalter

336 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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On a frosty day in February 1862, hundreds gathered to watch the execution of Nathaniel Gordon. Two years earlier, Gordon had taken Africans in chains from the Congo -- a hanging offense for more than forty years that no one had ever enforced. But...

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