Read By: Lewis Grenville
Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and
the Man Who Brought Them Down

For a brief, glorious period in the early 1700s, the Bahamas was ruled
by a gang of some of the most famous pirates the seas had ever seen.

Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and their associates
banded together to form a pirate cooperative, culminating in a form of
government in which blacks were equal citizens, the rich were imprisoned
and common sailors could veto their captain's orders.

At the height of their power the gang served Britain, France, and Spain
from their New World empires. The Royal Navy went from being unable to
catch the pirates to being afraid to encounter them at all, and
the public embraced the pirates as folk heroes.

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