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In 1848, Gordon's boat, ''Juliet'', was searched by the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] for evidence of slave trading. After no evidence of slave trading could be found, Gordon was released from their custody. However, there were allegations that Gordon had indeed gone to Africa, taken a cargo of slaves, and returned to [[Brazil]], where slavery was still legal at the time.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2005055897 |url=http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005055897-s.html |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=catdir.loc.gov}}</ref>

In 1851, Gordon, captaining the ''Camargo,'' went on another expedition from Brazil to Africa. Gordon took on 500 Africans and set sail for Brazil. He had to take numerous measures to avoid naval patrol ships. Gordon was nevertheless chased by a British [[man-of-war]]. After arriving in Brazil and dropping off the Africans, Gordon burned his ship to destroy evidence. The Africans were seized and some of Gordon's men were arrested and charged. Gordon himself escaped by dressing intoin women's clothes.<ref name=":1" />

Shortly after the ''Camargo'' voyage, Gordon, captaining ''Ottawa'', made a slaving voyage to Cuba, where slavery was also still legal, with a cargo of Africans. Only about 25 percent of the Africans survived, with Gordon later claiming that a rival trader had poisoned them. After landing in Cuba, Gordon again burned his ship afterwards to destroy evidence.<ref name=":1" />

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}}</ref> of whom only 172 were grown men and 162 grown women. Gordon apparently preferred to carry children because they would not rise up to free themselves. The day after loading, ''Erie'' sailed from the Congo River, only to be captured by the [[USS Mohican (1859)|USS ''Mohican'']] within hours.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="harpers">[http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-trader.htm "The Execution of Gordon, The Slave-Trader"], ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'', March 8, 1862.</ref> Commander [[Sylvanus William Godon]] had a [[prize crew]] take command of ''Erie'' and ordered them to first transport the freed slaves to [[Liberia]], and then return to New York. Liberia was the American colony established in West Africa by the [[American Colonization Society]] for the settlement of free blacks from the United States. According to reports, during the 15-day passage to Liberia at least 29 captives died and were thrown overboard.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Execution of Gordon The Slave-Trader |url=https://blackhistory.harpweek.com/7illustrations/slavery/ExecutionOfSlavetrader.htm |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=blackhistory.harpweek.com}}</ref> In New York, the ship was to be auctioned off, and Nathaniel Gordon, [[first mate]] William Warren, and [[second mate]] David Hall would stand trial.<ref name="Spears 1900 464" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Howard |first=Warren S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rbmSrE5-B7IC |title=American Slavers and the Federal Law |date=1963 |publisher=University of California Press |pages=223 |language=en}}</ref>

Commander Godon had four other of Gordon's crewmen placed on the [[USS Marion|USS ''Marion'']]: Thomas Nelson, Samuel Sleeper, Thomas Savage, and John McCafferty. ''Marion'' sailed to Portsmouth, [[New Hampshire]], where they were put on trial. In November 1860, the four crewmen were convicted of voluntarily serving on a slave ship but acquitted of engaging in the slave trade. Each of them was fined $1 and sentenced to about ten months in prison.<ref>{{Cite book |last=White |first=Jonathan W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=avu6EAAAQBAJ |title=Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade |date=2023 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-7502-6 |pages=132–133 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=HISTORY OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FEDERAL COURTS |url=https://www.nhd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/NHFedCtHistory.pdf}}</ref>

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