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Just when you thought nothing new could be said about pirates, along comes Len Travers, a masterful historian, with new evidence, new insights, and a swashbuckling good book. Pirate lovers will rejoice. --Marcus Rediker, author of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age Thoroughly researched and wonderfully told, this volume offers abundant new and telling information, not the least of which concerns the vicissitudes of enslaved Africans when their lives were drawn into the precarious sphere of sea banditry. --Prof. Timothy D. Walker, editor, Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad

"""Just when you thought nothing new could be said about pirates, along comes Len Travers, a masterful historian, with new evidence, new insights, and a swashbuckling good book. Pirate lovers will rejoice.""--Marcus Rediker, author of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age ""Thoroughly researched and wonderfully told, this volume offers abundant new and telling information, not the least of which concerns the vicissitudes of enslaved Africans when their lives were drawn into the precarious sphere of sea banditry.""--Prof. Timothy D. Walker, editor, Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad"

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Len Travers is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and the author of Hodges' Scout: A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War.

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