Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Part I: The “Golden Age”
Let the Piracy Begin
Chipping Away at the Spanish Main
Birth of the Buccaneers
Part I.I The Buccaneers 1640–1670
The Buccaneer Privateers
Jamaica
The Pirate King
Port Royal, Dung Hill of the Universe
Enter Henry Morgan
Policy Changes
Privateers of the Second Dutch War
Henry Morgan—King of the Privateers
Searle’s Sack of St. Augustine
Morgan’s Panama Campaign
Summing Up the Buccaneers 1640–1670
Part I.II The Buccaneer Pirates 1670–1702
Sailing Under French Colors
Sir Henry Morgan
Changing Times
The Buccaneer Author
The Treaty that Changes the Caribbean
Dampier’s Round the World Voyage
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
Piracy and Higher Education
Pirate Ports & Trade in North America
The Pirate Haven of St. Mary’s
Tew and Every
Captain William Kidd
The Last Great Pirate of the Indian Ocean
The Last Hurrah for the French Privateers
Summing Up the Buccaneer Pirates 1670–1702
The War Almost Nobody Knows About
Part I.III Pirates and Privateers of the War of 1702–1713
Woods Rogers
Queen Anne’s War
Summing Up Pirates and Privateers of the War of 1702–1713
The Book that Altered History
Part I.IV The Pyrates 1714–1722
The Pyrates are Back
Henry Jennings, and a New Pyrate Port
Hornigold’s Pyrates
Black Sam Bellamy On His Own
Blackbeard the Pyrate
The Unlikely Partnership
The Queen Anne’s Revenge
The King’s Proclamation
From Honduras to Ocracoke
Woods Rogers and the Rebel with a Cause
Blackbeard’s Girlfriend
Sugar, Mutiny, and the Pyrate Banyon
The Royal James
The Death of Blackbeard
Who Was the Real Blackbeard?
The Big Pyrate Ships of the African Waters
To the African Waters
The Troubled Partnership, Davis, La Buse, and Cocklyn
William Snelgrave’s Invaluable Account
Partnership Dissolved and Davis’ Death
Roberts Takes Command
The Pyrate Fleet of Edward England
Taylor and La Buse
Roberts Starts Over Again
Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read
Roberts Vows Revenge
The Last Great Pyrate
Summing Up the Pyrates 1714–1722
Part II: A Pirate's Life
The Pirate’s Code
The Captain’s Authority
Tools of the Trade—Sailing Vessels
Tools of the Trade—Guns
Tools of the Trade—Firelocks
Tools of the Trade— Edge Weapons
Tools of the Trade—Navigation
The Black Flag of Death’s Head
Tactics
Treatment of Captives
Pirate Booty
Coin of the Realm
Buried Treasure
Daily Life, How They Lived
Talk Like a Pirate
A Square Meal
Native to the Old World or the New
What to Eat With
Textiles
Fashion
How Do I Look?
Glossary
Bibliography
