Why did captain canot like slavery

Theodore Canot (1804-1860) had a combined French and Italian origin and was a traveller, adventurer and slave trader. His memoirs are a vivid, accurate and valuable testimony about all issues which concerned slave trade.

Thedore was already in a boat with 19, and with 22, in 1826 he joined the slave ship Aerostatica at Havana. This is how he "plunged accidentaly", using his own words, into slave trade, and he ended up being one the most famous and successful slave traders of all times.

He is described as a smart, ambitious, an unscrupulous person, with "no religion, many vices, and few weaknesses". The beliefs of Canot regarding slavery have to be valued as part of the intellectual history of racism, as his very profitable businesses pertained to the era in which slavery and race were interconnected. In fact, at those times, the belief about the racial inferiority of the slaves was the main force behing the constantly growing trade flows and not the need for labor. Africans were considered sub-humans, and such ideas legitimized the practice. Captain Canot shared these tendencies and exploted the business accordingly.