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A searing maritime memoir that travels the edge between peril and conscience, Captain Canot invites readers to survey the Atlantic world through a survivor's eye. A man's voyage through slavery, commerce, and survival becomes a record of endurance, restraint, and unflinching witness. This restored edition renders Brantz Mayer's biographical slave narrative with clarity and reverence, offering a compact, human view of historical slave labour exploitation on the African coast and beyond. It blends vivid maritime scenes with ear-witness testimony, illuminating the brutal realities of the slave trade while bearing the marks of abolitionist context that helped shape nineteenth century maritime discourse. For readers of slave history and collectors alike, the book offers a lucid conduit to a complex era, balancing narrative immediacy with reflective moral inquiry. Its literary and historical significance extends beyond its pages: this is a primary-source sensibility made accessible, a bridge between the primitive grit of ocean crossing and the refined scrutiny of modern study. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint, it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, inviting casual readers and classic-literature connoisseurs to reconsider an essential chapter of the Atlantic world and its abolitionist literature.