The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard

A riveting history of the most notorious pirate. Being The True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down. Still, this is a fast-paced narrative that will be especially attractive to lovers of pirate lore and to vacationers who are Bahamas-bound. The Republic of Pirates - By Colin Woodard. Woodard's portrait of Rogers is a little flat-the man is virtually flawless ('courageous, selfless, and surprisingly patriotic'), and the prose is sometimes breathless ('they would know him by just one word. Woodard describes how Rogers, aided by Virginia's acting governor, Alexander Spotswood, finally defeated the notorious Blackbeard.

Woodes Rogers, the governor of the Bahamas and himself a former privateer, determined to bring the pirates to heel. The British saw piracy as a threat to colonial commerce and government. Known as New Providence, the community attracted not only disaffected sailors but also runaway slaves and yeomen farmers who had trouble getting a toehold in the plantation economy of the American colonies. Woodard ( The Lobster Coast ) tells a romantic story about Caribbean pirates of the 'Golden Age' (17151725)whom he sees not as criminals but as social revolutionariesand the colonial. One group of especially powerful pirates set up a colony in the Bahamas. The Republic of Pirates: Being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down Colin Woodard Pan Macmillan, History - 416 pages 4. OL13672643W Page_number_confidence 95.54 Pages 406 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210930013147 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 305 Scandate 20210926001217 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780156034623 Tts_version 4.) tells a romantic story about Caribbean pirates of the 'Golden Age' (1715–1725)-whom he sees not as criminals but as social revolutionaries-and the colonial governors who successfully clamped down on them, in the early 18th-century Bahamas.

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The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard