The Middle Passage The Roles Of Ramón Ferrer And Theodore Canot In The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Author : Silvan Wilsch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783668526624

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The Middle Passage. The Roles of Ramón Ferrer and Theodore Canot in the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Silvan Wilsch Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 2,0, University of Freiburg, language: English, abstract: The transatlantic slave trade from the early fifteenth to the second half of the nineteenth century played a major role for the development of the modern world. It enabled Europe's transition to capitalism, the nation-state, and imperialism, and fostered the growth of western European nations and empires. Slave ships were the most important link between Europe, Africa and America and enabled the development of the Americans. All this, as well as the creation of a higher standard of living for many Europeans and Americans, happened at the expense of millions of enslaved people and was connected to inconceivable suffering. Talking about the transatlantic slave trade means talking about the biggest case of forced migration in recorded human history. Over the course of four centuries, slave ships continued to cross the Atlantic. It is estimated that between the years of 1500 and 1900 approximately 11,7 million Africans were forcefully deported into slavery, mainly from West, Central and South Africa. A mere 9,8 to 10 million of these abducted prisoners reached their intended destinations alive. The other 1,7 million prisoners were not able to endure the torments of the transatlantic crossing - the middle passage -, or died shortly after their arrival as a result of the deprivations they suffered whilst on the slave ships. Due to the immense importance of the middle passage for the slave trade between Africa and the Americans, this paper investigates the topic further. A transatlantic slave trade will serve as background for further analysis. The macrostructure of the slave trade will be examined using the example of the 18th century French slave ship "Diligent". Concerning the microstructure, the historical records of Captain Theodore Canot and additional secondary literature will serve as the basis for an analysis of the conditions on slave ships at the time. In a final step, the life of Ramón Ferrer - captain of the slave ship "Amistad" - will be reconstructed with the aid of newly released documents and by using the chronicles of Canot as a guideline to speculate about gaps in Ferrer's biography.

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781605206660

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Captain Canot, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Theodore Canot Pdf

Sometimes published as *Adventures of an African Slaver,* this replica of the 1854 first edition restores its original title. All of its unique power remains intact. Adapted from the journals, memoranda, and conversations of French-Italian seafarer and notorious slaver CAPTAIN THEODORE CANOT (1804-1860), this vivid and unexaggerated depiction of the slave trade between Africa and the New World is prized as a firsthand account of every aspect of the industry, from how slaves are purchased to the first reactions of newly arrived slaves to the New World and beyond. Explicit and shocking, this volume is also a startling illustration of the racist attitudes of its day, from Canot's justifications for the slave trade to the introduction by American journalist BRANTZ MAYER (1809-1879), who compiled Canot's material for publication and defended his subject's work. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American slavery.

Author : Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788027240463

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Captain Canot - Twenty Years of an African Slave Ship (Autobiographical Account) by Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot Pdf

Author : Théophile Conneau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1915645352

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Captain Canot by Théophile Conneau Pdf

The amazing, shocking, and true autobiography of a trans-Atlantic slave trader who plied the slave trade between Africa and Cuba for twenty years from 1820 to 1840. Dealing forthrightly with all aspects of this trade in humans, the book starts with a small biographical background before moving in to the core of his story, which can be divided into five major sections: how Africans were captured, how they were transported, how they were "unloaded" at their destination, how the European powers attempted to halt the trade, and finally, the role of the Arab Muslim slavers in the awful business. Canot's book contains many revelations which have traditionally been obscured in other accounts of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, namely that the Africans had in face been enslaved by their own people first and then just sold on to the foreign slavers, that the slave traders faced fierce physical attempts by the British, the French, and other European powers to halt the inhuman trade, and that the Arab Muslim slavers in Africa were, along with the Africans themselves, the main drivers of the capture and availability of Africans for the slave markets in both the East and West. It is a breath-taking book that has lost none of its emotional power since its first publication. Completely reset and contains all the original illustrations.

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Africa
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172017358388

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Captain Canot by Theodore Canot Pdf

Author : Theophilus Conneau,Brantz Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : OXFORD:600052813

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Captain Canot; or, Twenty years of an African slaver, by B. Mayer by Theophilus Conneau,Brantz Mayer Pdf

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020020579

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Adventures of an African Slaver by Theodore Canot Pdf

Author : Herbert S. Klein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400844395

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The Middle Passage by Herbert S. Klein Pdf

Herbert Klein's book makes several distinctive contributions to our understanding of the slave trade. It offers us the first systematic comparative study of major European slave traders based exclusively on archival sources. The author's minimization of the effect of overcrowded slave ships contributes to a longstanding debate regarding the mortality rate of the slaves. His emphasis of the African influences on the character of the slave trade offsets the more frequent emphasis placed on the European influences. Furthermore, Klein maintains that basic similarities existed among the slave-trading practices of all nations, with no one nation being any better than another. Using demographic and other quantitative data, Professor Klein describes the trans-Atlantic slave trade as it was practiced by all of the major European powers during the period of its maximum development. His work spans a century and a half of European trading activity and an area from Senegal to Mozambique in Africa and from the Chesapeake to Guanabara Bay in the Western hemisphere. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108083409

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Captain Canot by Theodore Canot Pdf

Published in 1854, a first-hand account of the life of a slaver, giving an intimate insight into the slave trade.

Author : Captain Theodore Canot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1639238859

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Adventures of an African Slaver by Captain Theodore Canot Pdf

Grim account by a former slave ship captain describes the apalling machinery of the commercial slave trade, including the harems and "factories" maintained by slavers, treatment and discipline of black Africans on slave ships, the suppression of slave revolts at sea, and much more. Republication of the classic 1854 edition.

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Ostara Publications
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646693884

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Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Theodore Canot Pdf

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. Specifically, this work reveals that slavery was a long-standing African tradition practiced long before the Europeans arrived, and that it was Africans and Muslim-slave traders in particular who provided all the slaves eventually transported to the New World. It is clear from all the "transactions" and "shipments" which Canot describes, that without the active assistance of Africans and Muslim slave traders, there would never have been a Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade--and that these two groups bear equal, if not greater blame for the crime of slavery. As Canot describes, the African slave traders regularly captured and traded their own people as slaves, with tribesmen selling each other, and their own wives, sisters, daughters and sons to slave traders for trifles such as bottles of rum or a handful of beads. Some African chiefs grew so rich from the slave trade, Canot reveals, that when he finally decided to halt his "business," the local Africans were so angry that they burned down his property in revenge for his refusal to buy any more slaves from them. In addition, Canot describes precisely how slaves were captured, and how they were transported across the Atlantic. His many adventures include how he dealt with crew mutinies and slave rebellions, his clashes with the anti-slavery British and French navies, his capture and imprisonment by the French, his escape from captivity, and much more. First published in English in 1854, this edition has been completely reset, and contains all the original text and illustrations.

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358923809

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Captain Canot, Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Theodore Canot Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Stephanie E. Smallwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674256781

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Saltwater Slavery by Stephanie E. Smallwood Pdf

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Smallwood's story is animated by deep research and gives us a startlingly graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. Ultimately, Saltwater Slavery details how African people were transformed into Atlantic commodities in the process. She begins her narrative on the shores of seventeenth-century Africa, tracing how the trade in human bodies came to define the life of the Gold Coast. Smallwood takes us into the ports and stone fortresses where African captives were held and prepared, and then through the Middle Passage itself. In extraordinary detail, we witness these men and women cramped in the holds of ships, gasping for air, and trying to make sense of an unfamiliar sea and an unimaginable destination. Arriving in America, we see how these new migrants enter the market for laboring bodies, and struggle to reconstruct their social identities in the New World. Throughout, Smallwood examines how the people at the center of her story-merchant capitalists, sailors, and slaves-made sense of the bloody process in which they were joined. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.

Author : Captain Theodore Canot
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486149455

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Adventures of an African Slaver by Captain Theodore Canot Pdf

Brimming with information on every aspect of the slave trade in the nineteenth century, this detailed account by a former slave ship captain accurately portrays the appalling machinery of commercial slavery.

Author : Theodore Canot,Brantz Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : OCLC:56463453

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Captain Canot by Theodore Canot,Brantz Mayer Pdf