The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The Republic of Pirates features the 18th-century pirates Edward Blackbeard Teach and Black Sam Bellamy, both of whom rose from England's underclass to become wealthy, notorious, and enormously powerful. Along with their associates in the Bahamas-based Flying Gang, Teach and Bellamy banded together to form a pirate cooperative, culminating in a form of government in which blacks were equal citizens, the rich were imprisoned, and a sailor could veto his captain by egalitarian means. For a brief, glorious period they were astoundingly successful, and so disruptive to shipping that the governors of Jamaica, Virginia, Bermuda, and the Carolinas a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-15-603462-3
- EAN: 9780156034623
- Produktnummer: 19438349
- Verlag: Harvest Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 383 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.8 cm x D1.8 cm 367 g
- Auflage: Electronic and
- Gewicht: 367
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