num_pages: 336
description: Documents the 1862 trial and execution of Nathaniel Gordon, the only man in the history of the United States to be hanged for slave trading, in an account that sets the trial against a backdrop of the Civil War under newly elected president Lincoln and offers insight into why slave trading, although illegal, was previously overlooked. 25,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader
titlecomplete: Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader
genres: Civil War, Nonfiction, American History, History, True Crime
ratings_count: 48
publisher: Atria