Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Written Out and Edited from Captain Theodore Canot's Journals, Memoranda and Conversations

An authentic, dramatic, shocking, and adventure-packed biography of an Italian-born slave trader who plied the Africa to Cuba slave trade from 1820 to 1840. This book has immense value not only for its vivid descriptions of the inhumanity of the slave trade, but also for its detailed explanations of how the African slave trade worked in Africa.