- 176 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The story of the last buccaneer of the Golden Age of Piracyâa fascinating figure who was far from the stereotypical swashbuckler.
Pirate Black Bart Roberts roamed the Atlantic from age thirteen in 1695 until his death in an ambush by the Royal Navy off Cape Lopez on the Guinea coast in 1722. Those years, coinciding with the Golden Age of Piracy, are chronicled here in excerpts from firsthand accounts and court documents, along with vintage illustrations and maps and the superb historical analysis of Terry Breverton.
Though they're more famous, pirates Blackbeard and Captain Kidd took only thirty vessels between them, compared to Black Bart's more than four hundred. And while today's image of a pirate includes a drunken sway within the swashbucklingâand few would argue that many a crew and captain of the era were prodigious drunkardsâBlack Bart Roberts breaks the mold. Not only was he a Christian who ordered his musicians to play hymns each Sunday, he was also famous among his seagoing contemporaries for his abstention from alcohol. Tall for the time, and dressed head to toe in red silk, Black Bart was a striking figure whom maritime history will not soon forget.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I: CAPTAIN HOWELL DAVIS - 'THE CAVALIER PRINCE OF PIRATES' d. 1719
- CHAPTER II: CAPTAIN SNELGRAVFS ACCOUNT
- CHAPTER III: JOHN ROBERT - BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS - BARTI DDU - BLACK BART: 'THE GREAT PYRATE', 'THE BLACK CAPTAIN','THE LAST AND MOST LETHAL PIRATE'
- CHAPTER IV: 1720 - TO THE WEST INDIES AND MORE PRIZES
- CHAPTER V: 1721 - BACK TO AFRICA
- CHAPTER VI: 1722 THE LAST DAYS OF THE GREAT PYRATE
- CHAPTER VII: JOHN PHILLIPS (PHILIPS) d. 18th April 1724