Three canoes slide out from the Cuban shore before first light, toward a Spanish sloop that has no wind to run.
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HOW PIRATES BUILT THEIR OWN REPUBLIC IN THE BAHAMAS
In 1713, a war ended and thousands of sailors lost their trade almost overnight. Some of them remembered a burned harbour in the Bahamas, with fresh water, a shallow bar no warship could cross, and no governor at all. This is the story of the town they built there, and of the men who each had to choose which side of the law they would stand on.
◈ A privateer without a war, and the one rule he refused to break
◈ A wrecked Spanish treasure fleet, and the silver that came ashore at Nassau
◈ A crew that voted out its own captain on a careening beach
◈ A King's pardon read aloud on the sand, and a ledger of names
Some captains went up to the table. Others stood back in the dark, remembering faces.
The Golden Age of Piracy in Nassau and New Providence, 1713–1718: Benjamin Hornigold, Henry Jennings, Sam Bellamy, Blackbeard, Charles Vane and the Flying Gang, from Cuba and the Florida wrecks to Cape Cod and the Carolina coast.
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Sources & further reading
— Colin Woodard, The Republic of Pirates (2007)
— Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates (1724)
— David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag (1995)
— Cotton Mather, Instructions to the Living, from the Condition of the Dead (1717)
— Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: America and West Indies, 1716–1718
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