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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
By Colin WoodardFrom $15.99 USD
Colin Woodard's narrative history of the Golden Age of Piracy, focusing on Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy, and Woodes Rogers, who founded and then dismantled the pirate republic at Nassau in the Bahamas. Argues that these pirates created a functioning democratic society before the British Crown suppressed it. The best narrative nonfiction account of the period.
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📄 352 pages⏱ ~3 hr read📅 2007
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Colin Woodard's narrative history of the Golden Age of Piracy, focusing on Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy, and Woodes Rogers, who founded and then dismantled the pirate republic at Nassau in the Bahamas. Argues that these pirates created a functioning democratic society before the British Crown suppressed it. The best narrative nonfiction account of the period.
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