Piracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colorful set of modern media archetypes. The reality, however, was usually uglier and frequently lethal. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to original memoirs, monographs, newspaper articles, and trial records to present a stark picture of piracy in the era of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ann Bonny and Mary Read. The contents many of which informed influential histories by Alexander Exquemelin and Charles Johnson are introduced, annotated, and carefully...
Piracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colorful set of modern media arc...
