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Nathaniel Gordon : ウィキペディア英語版 | Nathaniel Gordon
Nathaniel Gordon (February 6, 1826 – February 21, 1862) was the only American slave trader to be tried, convicted, and executed "for being engaged in the Slave Trade," under the Piracy Law of 1820. ==Career== Gordon was born in Portland, Maine. He went into shipping and eventually owned his own ship, ''Erie''. On August 7, 1860, he loaded 897 slaves aboard his ship ''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." The ''Erie'' was captured by the USS ''Mohican'' 50 miles from port on August 8, 1860.〔("The Execution of Gordon, The Slave-Trader" ), ''Harper's Weekly'', March 8, 1862.〕 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.〔
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