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Piracy Papers: Primary Source Documents from the Golden Age of Piracy
"These are the horrid, barbarous and bloody facts truly set down with every circumstance, for which I am now condemned to die, and whereby it appears that I am not alone guilty..."
The Golden Age of Piracy was over by the 1720s, but the legacies these scoundrels left behind are still with us. Part of that legacy exists in written trial records and newspaper articles, speeches and sermons, laws and proclamations. Collected here are thirty-eight original period documents, edited and footnoted for clarity and context. The letters and memorials you'll find inside show all sides of life in the time of pirates, from preachers to prisoners and from victims to governors and mayors.
The Golden Age of Piracy was over by the 1720s, but the legacies these scoundrels left behind are still with us. Part of that legacy exists in written trial records and newspaper articles, speeches and sermons, laws and proclamations. Collected here are thirty-eight original period documents, edited and footnoted for clarity and context. The letters and memorials you'll find inside show all sides of life in the time of pirates, from preachers to prisoners and from victims to governors and mayors.
359 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 12, 2020
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April 5, 2022
This is a good compendium of transcribed primary sources from "The Golden Age of Piracy" (roughly the first quarter of the 18th Century). The best sections were the first-hand accounts either of the pirates themselves or the sailors who encountered them. The most tedious were the sermons that the Mathers forced condemned pirates to endure during their last hours of life. (Though even these contained some worthy nuggets with the pirates' confessions/allocutions.)
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