The True Pirates of the Caribbean
Golden Age Outlaws, Atlantic Empire, and the Origins of Pirate MythologyBy Daniel Defoe, Charles Ellms, Captain Charles Johnson
Length40h 8m
About this audiobook
The True Pirates of the Caribbean gathers foundational pirate narratives into a vivid archive of maritime violence, commerce, rebellion, and legend. Ranging from chronicle-like biography and sensational anecdote to moral reflection and adventure narrative, the volume reveals how piracy was fashioned simultaneously as criminal history and popular entertainment. Accounts of notorious captains, mutinies, shipboard discipline, and colonial encounters illuminate the unstable boundary between factual record and literary mythmaking, making the collection an important context for later Caribbean romance and pirate fiction. Associated with Daniel Defoe, Captain Charles Johnson, and Charles Ellms, these texts emerge from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultures of print that transformed seafaring reports into enduring popular history. The complicated attribution surrounding Johnson's pirate histories itself underscores the collaborative, commercial, and often anonymous conditions of early modern authorship. Together, the contributors' narratives preserve the perspectives of journalists, compilers, moralists, and storytellers, situating Atlantic piracy within expanding imperial networks, plantation economies, and the public appetite for tales of transgression. Recommended for students of maritime history, Atlantic literature, and popular culture, this volume offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare competing versions of piracy within a single book. Readers will find both engrossing narratives and valuable evidence of how legend, reportage, and ideology shape historical memory.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length40 hrs 8 mins
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Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1History of Piracy in the Caribbean
2Introduction
3Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
4Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
5Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
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6Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
7Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
8Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
9Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
10The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
11Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
12Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
13Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
14Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
15Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
16Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
17Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
18Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
19Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
20Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
21An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
22An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
23Of Captain Misson
24Of Capt. John Bowen
25Of Capt. William Kid
26Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
27Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
28Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
29Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
30A Description of Magadoxa
31Of Capt. Bellamy
32Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
33Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
34Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
35Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
36Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
37Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
38The Pirate Gow
39The Life of Lafitte, the Famous Pirate of the Gulf of Mexico
40The Life of Charles Gibbs
41History of the Adventures, Capture and Execution of the Spanish Pirates
42The Bloody Career and Execution of Vincent Benavides a Pirate on the West Coast of South America
43The West India Pirates
44The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 1)
45The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 2)
46The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (pt. 3)
47Appendix
48I. Of Capt. Nathaniel North, And his Crew
49II. Of Captain Teach
50III. Of Major Bonnet
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