[PDF.49ju] Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader

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

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 | #2228018 in Books |  Atria Books |  2007-02-06 |  2007-02-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.80 x5.31l,.95 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Ron Soodalter out did himself|By O. Kwame Gyamfi|The author, Ron Soodalter, sets the stage to an extraordinary event in the history of the US. I was going through some old Harpers Ferry cartoons regarding reconstruction and came across the story of Captain Gordon. I did a google/ search and found this great piece of literature. Simply Amazing. What I like most about Soodalter's|From Publishers Weekly|Entering the dense fray of Civil War-themed books is this fast-paced story of the 1862 hanging of Nathaniel Gordon, one of many ship captains charged with breaking an 1820 law banning slave-trading, but the only one to ever be executed. So

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 with the country embroiled in a civil war and Abraham Lincoln at the helm, a sea change was taking place. Gordon, in the wrong place at the wrong time, got caught up in the wave.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader   |  Ron Soodalter.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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