About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2008-05-12
ISBN-13:9780156034623ISBN:015603462X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780156034623ISBN:015603462X
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Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Inc, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780151013029ISBN:0151013020
Description: Near Fine in near fine jacket. -Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down. First Edition, First Printing, signed by author. Very clean gold boards with black spine, red metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying; binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. SIGNED by author "Woodard" on title page beneath his name. 383 pgs. with index. Illustrated with ... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780156034623ISBN:015603462X
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"This book gives a true view of the life of the Caribbean Pirate other than the romantized tale of them that has passed down through the centuries. This is a good book for someone to read who is interested in pirates and wants to learn the truth of how they lived."
"Fascinating. I wanted to know why pirates have been so romanticized and this book helped explain it. For example, the author explains that the crew's mortality rates on slave ships was almost as high as that of the slaves themselves. Sailors were very often "pressed" or kidnapped into service. Captains often used severe corporal punishment for minor infractions. So, many sailors, when a pirate crew took over their ship would run off with them. When they joined the crew, they were entitled to an equal share of the loot--the captain (unlike in a privateer ship) would only have a small percentage more. Except in battle, the crew voted democratically in decision making. Although the pirates traded in captured slaves, freed blacks were usually treated as equals, entitled to equal shares of the take. With some exception, the captains were not cruel to captives but usually released them, often with a ship to travel with, once they had taken valuables. 9/09"
"A disappointing mix of historical evidence and the author's great fantasy that each of the great pirates were, in some way, bound to each other by fate. A decent read, if you are willing to bring your sieve and chuck out what obviously should have been left out."
"Very boring. Did not keep my attention enough for me to finish it which is very surprising because I dig history, particularly this period. There were some interesting tidbits in there but they were lost among the humdrum narrative."
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