Research Catalog

Title

Captain Canot, or, Twenty years of an African slaver : 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.

Author

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879

Publication

• New York : D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway ; London : [D. Appleton and Company] 16, Little Britain, MDCCCLIV. [1854]
• ©1854

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mayer, E. H.
• Mayer, Frank Blackwell, 1827-1899
• D. Appleton and Company, publisher
• Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin, engraver.

Description

xvii, [1], 448 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Captain Canot
• Twenty years of an African slaver

Subjects

• Slave traders > Biography
• Slave trade > Africa > Personal narratives
• Africa > Description and travel
• West Indies, British > Description and travel
• Canot, Theodore, 1804-1860

Note

• "Tenth thousand."
• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by Brantz Mayer, in the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• Added engraved title page signed: E.H. Mayer, del., Whitney-Jocelyn-Annin, sc. Some other plates also signed by Whitney-Jocelyn-Annin and F. [i.e. Frank Blackwell] Mayer.

Indexed In (note)

• Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Source (note)

• from the library of Melville J. Herskovits;

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "N. Denton Smith." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

SEKH (Mayer, B. Captain canot)

OCLC

52245085

Author

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879, author.

Title

Captain Canot, or, Twenty years of an African slaver : 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.

Publisher

New York : D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway ; London : [D. Appleton and Company] 16, Little Britain, MDCCCLIV. [1854]

Copyright Date

©1854

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression, 754

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 6581

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.1 (copy 1) (accession no. B526913) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "N. Denton Smith." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 326.1 (copy 1) accompanied by [2] page publisher's advertisement tipped in at front of first leaf of plates.

Source

Sc Rare 326.1 (copy 2) Gift; from the library of Melville J. Herskovits; 2008. NN

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Added Author

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879.

D. Appleton and Company, publisher

Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin, engraver.

Mayer, E. H., illustrator.

Mayer, Frank Blackwell, 1827-1899, illustrator.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

SEKH (Mayer, B. Captain canot)

Sc C 96-109

Sc Rare 326.1-M (Mayer, B. Captain Canot... 1854)