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"Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver" is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer. Canot's biography is notable for its vividness and general accuracy and it illustrates perfectly the conduct and character of every branch of the slave trade.
"Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver" is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer. Canot's biography is notable for its vividness and general accuracy and it illustrates perfectly the conduct and character of every branch of the slave trade.
Reproduction of the original: Captain Canot by Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot
The amazing, shocking, and true autobiography of a trans-Atlantic slave trader who plied the slave trade between Africa and Cuba for twenty years from 1820 to 1840. Dealing forthrightly with all aspects of this trade in humans, the book starts with a small biographical background before moving in to the core of his story, which can be divided into five major sections: how Africans were captured, how they were transported, how they were "unloaded" at their destination, how the European powers attempted to halt the trade, and finally, the role of the Arab Muslim slavers in the awful business. Canot's book contains many revelations which have traditionally been obscured in other accounts of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, namely that the Africans had in face been enslaved by their own people first and then just sold on to the foreign slavers, that the slave traders faced fierce physical attempts by the British, the French, and other European powers to halt the inhuman trade, and that the Arab Muslim slavers in Africa were, along with the Africans themselves, the main drivers of the capture and availability of Africans for the slave markets in both the East and West. It is a breath-taking book that has lost none of its emotional power since its first publication. Completely reset and contains all the original illustrations.
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"...There was very little comfort on board La Estrella, after the suppression of this revolt. We lived with a pent-up volcano beneath us ..."The subject of the book "Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver" is at once interesting and repulsive. It is interesting because it is connected with one of the great problems of early US history - because it throws new light upon the home-life, character, habits, and capacities for improvement of an enslaved people; and repulsive, because it vigorously and truthfully unveils the mysteries of a traffic which the civilization of the world had denounced as a crime, and which the humanity mourns as an outrage. Although, on the whole, Captain Canot modifies somewhat the horrors associated with the Slave Trade, he gives us great insight into its operations and the characters of those who are engaged in it. Strong indeed must have been the lust of gold, and extreme the moral debasement that could tempt men to embark in such a career when seen in the light of this volume. Brantz Mayer (1809 - 1879) was a famous American author and edited for a short time the Baltimore American newspaper. In 1855, he published his book "Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver" which is the true story of the slave trader Theodore Canot.