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

1854 1^ed 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 skulduggery with a moral for his times.” – Mayer

This 1854 edition included engraved illustration plates depicting “Inspection and sale of a Negro,” “Branding a Negress,” and “The Massacre at Digby,” among others!

Item number: #7848

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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
  • xvii, 448, [14]
  • 7 unnumbered leaves of plates
• References: Hosken p. 138. Ragatz p. 526. Sabin 47093. Cundall 2725, Hamilton 1029. LCP, Afro-Americana 6581. Blockson 9289
• Language: English
• Binding: Cloth; moderately secure
• Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 14cm)

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