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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 Spiral-Bound | May 12, 2008

Colin Woodard

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The Republic of Pirates is award-winning journalist Colin Woodward's historical biography of Edward “Blackbeard” Teach and “Black Sam” Bellamy, and their exploits in the Caribbean.


 

The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world

In the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates—former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves—this "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which servants were free, blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or deposed by a vote. They cut off trade routes, sacked slave ships, and severed Europe from its New World empires, and for a brief, glorious period the Republic was a success.

Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 015603462X
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.7 x 8.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
PRAISE FOR COLIN WOODARD

"A tremendous reporter . . . and [a] strong, impassioned writer as well."—THE BOSTON GLOBE

PRAISE FOR THE LOBSTER COAST

"A beautifully considered history . . . Woodard’s admiration for lobster culture is stirring . . . Mainers’ feisty pluck remains undiminished in the face of obstacles."—NEWSDAY

COLIN WOODARD is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and award-winning author of American Nations: A History of The Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, and Ocean’s End: Travels Through Endangered Seas. He is State & National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald, where he won a George Polk Award for his investigative reporting. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian, the Economist, the Washington Post, and many other national and international publications. He lives in midcoast Maine.