The Career of Nathaniel Gordon: A 19th-Century Slave Trader

FAIN: GN-22699-86

Lancit Media Visions, Inc. (New York, NY 10025-7251)
Cecily Truett (Project Director: September 1985 to October 1990)

To support the planning of a two-hour television drama which will focus on the career of Nathaniel Gordon, the only man ever convicted and executed for importing slaves into the United States. Retracing this case will shed light on the social, political, and legal circumstance of the pre-Civil War period.