Republic of Pirates Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

Name: Republic of Pirates Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
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ISBN: 9780156034623

ISBN-10: 015603462X

ISBN-13: 9780156034623

Edition: 2007

Authors: Colin Woodard

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Welcome to the Pirate Republic—the early-eighteenth-century home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates—former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves—this "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which servants were free, blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or deposed by a vote. For a brief, glorious period the Pirate Republic was enormously successful. It cut off trade routes, sacked slave ships, and severed Europe from its New World empires. Imperial authorities and wealthy shipowners…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



prologue


The Golden Age of Piracy



The Legend (1696)



Going to Sea (1697–1702)



War (1702–1712)



Peace (1713–1715)



Pirates Gather (January–June 1716)



Brethren of the Coast (June 1716–March 1717)



Bellamy (March–May 1717)



Blackbeard (May–December 1717)



Begging Pardon (December 1717–July 1718)



Brinksmanship (July–September 1718)



Hunted (September 1718–March 1720)


Epilogue Piracy’s End (1720–1732)


Acknowledgments


Endnotes


Index