Adventures of an African Slaver (1854)

by Theodore Canot

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Grim account by a former slave ship captain describes the apalling machinery of the commercial slave trade, including the harems and "factories" maintained by slavers, treatment and discipline of black Africans on slave ships, the suppression of slave revolts at sea, and much more. Republication of the classic 1854 edition.… (more)

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Captain Canot, or, Twenty years of an African slaver : being an account of his career and adventures on the coast, in the interior, on shipboard, and in the West Indies

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Adventures of an African slaver

Memoirs of a slave-trader

Captain Canot, an African slaver

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1854

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The titles Adventures of an African slaver, Captain Canot, an African slaver, Memoirs of a slave-trader are republications of the 1854 work Captain Canot, or, Twenty years of an African slaver : being an account of his career and adventures on the coast, in the interior, on shipboard, and in the West Indies / written out and edited from the captain’s journals, memoranda and conversations, by Brantz Mayer.

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Grim account by a former slave ship captain describes the apalling machinery of the commercial slave trade, including the harems and "factories" maintained by slavers, treatment and discipline of black Africans on slave ships, the suppression of slave revolts at sea, and much more. Republication of the classic 1854 edition.

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