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The career of the slave trader Captain Theodore Canot (1804?60) was long and eventful. First published in 1854 and edited by Brantz Mayer (1809?79), this is an intimate and sometimes graphic account of Canot?s life, giving a first-hand description of the practicalities and difficulties of the slave trade.
1. My parentage and education; 2. My uncle tells my adventure; 3. I design going to South America; 4. Bury my body in the sand to escape the insects; 5. Life on a sand key; 6. I am sent from the key; 7. Reflections on my conduct and character; 8. I take possession of my new quarters; 9. Pains and dreariness of the ?wet season?; 10. Mode of purchasing slaves at factories; 11. An epoch in my life in 1827; 12. How a cargo of slaves is landed in Cuba; 13. I become intimate with ?country princes? and receive their presents; 14. Joseph, my partner, has to fly from Africa; 15. I study the institution of slavery in Africa; 16. Caravan announced; 17. I set forth on my journey to Timbo; 18. A ride on horseback; 19. A night bivouac in the forest; 20. Spread of Mahometanism in the interior of Africa; 21. We approach Tamisso; 22. Improved character of the country and population as we advance to the interior; 23. Our caravan proceeds towards Timbo; 24. Site of Timbo and the surrounding country; 25. My home journey; 26. Arrival of a French slaver; 27. Ormond communicates with the Spaniard; 28. Capt. Escudero of the Esperanza dies; 29. Off to sea; 30. I am sent on board the corvette; 31. I drift away in a boat with my servant; 32. My greeting in Kambia; 33. A visit to the Matacan river in quest of slaves; 34. What became of the Esperanza?s officers and crew; 35. I escape capture; 36. A ?white squall?; 37. A long holiday; 38. Our captain longs for calomel, and how I get it from a Scotchman; 39. My returns from the voyage $12,000, and how I apply them; 40. All Africans believe in divinities, except the Bagers; 41. My voyage home in the Estrella; 42. Smallpox and a necessary murder; 43. The Aguila de Oro, a Chesapeake clipper; 44. I am sent to France in the frigate Flora; 45. Madame Sorret and my new quarters; 46. New lodgers in our quarters; 47. Monsieur Germaine, the forger; 48. Plan of escape; 49. Condition of the sentinel when he was found; 50. I go to Portugal; 51. I reach Goree, and hasten to Sierra Leone; 52. Anecdotes of Blanco; 53. I visit Liberia; 54. My establishment at New Sestros, and how I created the slave trade in that region; 55. No river at New Sestros ; 56. I go on a pleasure voyage in the Brilliant; 57. What Don Pedro Blanco thought of my Quixotism; 58. My compliments to British cruisers; 59. Ups and downs; 60. The confession of a dying sailor; 61. My establishment at Digby; 62. I escape from the bloody scene in a boat; 63. Don Pedro Blanco leaves Gallinas; 64. I make arrangements for future trade and business with Mr. Redman; 65. I find my establishment in danger; 66. I am attacked by the British cruiser Termagant; 67. My barracooons destroyed; 68. We land at Cape Mount; 69. Visit to Monrovia; 70. I remove, and settle permanently at New Florence; 71. Account of the character of the Vey negroes; 72. My workshops, gardens and plantations; 73. Fana-Toro?s war, and its effect on my establishment.
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