The pirates' pact : the secret alliances between history's most notorious buccaneers and colonial America / Douglas R. Burgess Jr.
Author: Burgess, Douglas R.
Publisher: Chicago : McGraw-Hill, 2008.
ISBN: 9780071474764 (alk. paper)
0071474765 (alk. paper)
Description: 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject: Pirates Atlantic Coast (U.S.) History.
Pirates Caribbean Area History.
Piracy Atlantic Coast (U.S.) History.
Piracy Caribbean Area History.
Governors United States History.
Governors West Indies, British History.
Great Britain Colonies America Administration.
Great Britain Colonies West Indies Administration.
Contents: Enemies of the human race -- Erring captains : state-sponsored piracy and its aftermath -- "His majesty's pleasure" : Henry Morgan and Jamaica -- Oddsfish! -- The pirate cabal -- King Baldridge and the Red Sea pirates -- Amity, liberty, and Thomas Tew -- Henry Every, "as yet an Englishman's friend" -- Trials and tribulations -- The most hated man in America -- Nemesis -- "Your loving friends" -- The despair of Lord Bellomont -- "That race of wicked men" -- Afterword : pirate patronage in the twenty-first century.