1928. Adventures of an African Slaver. Captain Theodore Canot. Illustrator Miquel Covarrubias.
376 pp. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. Illustrated frontispiece in b/w line drawings. Full b/w drawings between pp 106-107 & 202 - 207.The true account of life of Captain Canot, trader in gold, ivory and slaves that began on the coast of Guinea. It is the horrible account describing the appalling machinery of the commercial slave trade, the treatment & discipline of black Africans on the slave ships, the suppression of the slave revolts at sea and more.
Black cloth covered boards with gilded lettering on spine.