Lincoln: A President for the Ages by Participant Media Karl Weber & Karl Weber

Lincoln: A President for the Ages by Participant Media Karl Weber & Karl Weber

Author:Participant Media, Karl Weber & Karl Weber [Participant Media, Karl Weber & Weber, Karl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, United States, History, Biography & Autobiography, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Essays, Presidents & Heads of State, Film & Video, Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781610392631
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2012-10-30T00:00:00+00:00


Lincoln even refused pleas to commute the sentence to life imprisonment and yielded to only a two-week stay on the grounds that the fruitless appeals “may have prevented the said Nathaniel Gordon from making the necessary preparations for the awful change which awaits him.” Otherwise, Gordon was told to dismiss “all expectation of pardon.” Gordon was hanged on February 21, 1862, the only execution for the slave trade in American history and the “death blow” to the transatlantic slave trade.



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