Theophile Conneau (Theodore Canot) was born in Italy in 1807, and was captain of several slave trading vessels until the 1850's when he settled in the United States.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

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.