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On a February day in 1862, a slight, bearded prisoner stood beneath the gallows in a New York City prison courtyard, facing death. Captain Nathaniel Gordon was surrounded by Marines and a crowd of invited "guests"—mostly reporters, politicians and officials. Convicted of "piratically confining and detaining negroes with intent of making them slaves," Gordon was about to become the only man in American history to be executed for the crime of slave trading....
http://www.historynet.com/hanging-captain-gordon.htm
On a February day in 1862, a slight, bearded prisoner stood beneath the gallows in a New York City prison courtyard, facing death. Captain Nathaniel Gordon was surrounded by Marines and a crowd of invited "guests"—mostly reporters, politicians and officials. Convicted of "piratically confining and detaining negroes with intent of making them slaves," Gordon was about to become the only man in American history to be executed for the crime of slave trading....
http://www.historynet.com/hanging-captain-gordon.htm
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