1854 1ed African SLAVE TRADE Capt Theodore Canot Africa Slavery Sierra Leone



An account of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade by a participant, Captain Theodore Canot (1804-1860). His narrative as a slaver in Africa and the West Indies, as recorded by Baltimore historian, Brantz Mayer, includes much on the slave trade in the interior of Africa including journeys to Timbo, Timbuktu, Kambia, Dahomey, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

"This memoir, as well as being a circumstantial account of the slave trade, is a document in the intellectual history of racism. Mayer saw in Canot's story a confirmation of his own facile assumptions concerning the slavery question, and he provided Canot's narrative of skullduggery with a moral for his times." - Mayer



This 1854 edition included engraved illustration plates depicting:

Mandingo Chief and His Sword Bearer

Inspection and Sale of a Negro

Branding a Negress

The Women of Timbo Drawing Water

The Shipping of Beeljie

The Massacre at Digby

An Elephant Hunt



Item number: #9606

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MAYER, Bratz



Captain Canot, or, Twenty years of an African slavery: being an account of his career and adventures on the coast, in the interior, or shipboard, and in the West Indies written out and edited from the captain's journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer



New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1854. First Edition.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[2], xvii, [1], 448, [12]

8 engraved plates

References: Sabin 47093

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 14cm)



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