Adventures of an African Slaver: Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Own Story as Told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer

xxi, 376 pp. Originally published in 1854 by a slave trader nicknamed Mr. Gunpowder by the African people. Cowley's introduction contextualizes the memoir, and his editing of the original text conveys to a new audience the firsthand experience of a particular dark moment in the moral history of humanity.