Description: 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 denounced its residents as the enemies of mankind, but common people saw them as heroes. Colin Woodard tells the dramatic untold story of the Pirate Republic that shook the very foundations of the British and Spanish Empires and fanned the democratic sentiments that would one day drive the American Revolution.
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Release Year: 2008
Book Title: Republic of Pirates : Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
Item Length: 8 in
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Author: Colin Woodard
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Adventurers & Explorers, Maritime History & Piracy, Criminals & Outlaws, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2008
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 10.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
