Inspection and Sale of a Negro
This image shows European and African slave traders with one of the former inspecting a slave, while another onlooking and a third bargaining over trade goods with African traders. Brantz Mayer (1809-1879) was an American author and prominent journalist. His book was written from the journals, memoranda and conversations he had with Captain Theodore Canot (1804-1860), who was a French-Italian adventurer and slave trader. Canot mostly traded between the Upper Guinea Coast and Cuba. A very similar image, with some people added, is published in William O. Blake, The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade (Columbus, Ohio, 1857, facing p. 112); see image Blake2 on this website.
Image Title
Inspection and Sale of a Negro
RegID
SI-OB-733
Date
1800s
Title
Inspection and Sale of a Negro
Source
Brantz Mayer, Captain Canot; or, Twenty years an African slaver. . . (New York, 1854), facing p. 94. Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library; also, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-15392.
Language
English
Item sets
Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Rivers
Reproduced In
Brantz Mayer, Captain Canot; or, Twenty years an African slaver (New York, 1854), facing p. 94.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
3-Aug-10
Identifier
canot-2