A Work abounding in Exciting Scenes and Remarkable Incidents.
Capt. 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.
One Volume, 12mo. With eight Illustrations. Price $1 25.
Criticisms of the Press.
“The author is a literary gentleman of Baltimore, no Abolitionist, and we believe the
work to be a truthful account of the life of a man who saw much more than falls to the lot
of most men.”
—Commonwealth.
“A remarkable volume is this; because of its undoubted truth: it having been derived
by Mayer from personal conversations with Canot, and from journals which the slaver furnished
of his own life.”
—Worcester Palladium.
“Capt. Canot, the hero of the narrative, is, to our own knowledge, a veritable personage,
and resides in Baltimore. There is no doubt that the main incidents connected with
his extraordinary career are in every respect true.”
—Arthur's Home Gazette.
“Under one aspect, as the biography of a remarkable man who passed through a singularly
strange and eventful experience, it is as interesting as any sea story that we have
ever read.”
—Boston Evening Traveller.
“Capt. Canot has certainly passed through a life of difficulty, danger, and wild, daring
adventure, which has much the air of romance, and still he, or rather his editor, tells the
tale with so much straightforwardness, that we cannot doubt its truthfulness.”
—New York
Sunday Despatch.
“The work could not have been better done if the principal actor had combined
the descriptive talent of De Foe with the astuteness of Fouche and the dexterity of Gi.
adventure, which traits are ascribed to the worthy whose acquaintance we shall soon make by
his admiring editor.”
—N. Y. Tribune.
“The general style of the work is attractive, and the narrative spirited and bold—well
suited to the daring and hazardous course of life led by the adventurer. This book is illustrated
by several excellent engravings.”
—Baltimore American.
“The biography of an African slaver as taken from his own lips, and giving his adventures
in this traffic for twenty years. With great natural keenness of perception and complete
communicativeness, he has literally unmasked his real life, and tells both what he
was and what he saw, the latter being the Photograph of the Negro in Africa, which has
been so long wanted. A nephew of Mr. Mayer has illustrated the volume with eight admirable
drawings. We should think no book of the present day would be received with
so keen an interest.”
—Home Journal.
“Capt. Canot has passed most of his life since 1819 on the ocean, and his catalogue of
adventures at sea and on land, rival in grotesqueness and apparent improbability the marvels
of Robinson Crusoe.”
—Evening Post.
“If stirring incidents, hair-breadth escapes, and variety of adventure, can make a book
interesting, this must possess abundant attractions.”
—Newark Daily Advertiser.
“This is a true record of the life of one who had spent the greater part of his days in
dealing in human flesh. We commend this book to all lovers of adventure.”
—Boston
Christian Recorder.
“We would advise every one who is a lover of `books that are books'—every one who
admires Le Sage and De Foe, and has lingered long over the charming pages of Gil Blas
and Robinson Crusoe—every one, pro-slavery or anti-slavery, to purchase this book.”
—
Buffalo Courier
