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Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Nevvs from Execution-Dock, Or, The Last Speeches and Confession of the Two Notorious Pirates, Captain George Cusacke, and Simon Harcourt
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Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Mutiny on the Black Prince
Author: James H SweetPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197692729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations. In 1768, the British slave ship Black Prince, departed the port of Bristol, bound for West Africa. It never arrived. Before reaching Old Calabar, the crew mutinied, murdering the captain and his officers. The mutineers renamed the ship Liberty, elected new officers, and set out for Brazil. By the time the ship arrived there, the crew had disintegrated into a violent mob and fired into the port city. After the Black Prince wrecked off the coast of Hispaniola, the rebels fled to outposts around the Atlantic world. An eight-year manhunt ensued. This book follows the crew's turn to piracy and the merchant-owners' response to the uprising. At the very moment that the American Revolution unfolded in North America, the Black Prince's owners conducted a "shadow" revolution, mobilizing the power of the British Crown to seek justice and restitution on their behalf. These private merchants used state surveillance, policing, extradition, capital punishment, international diplomacy, and even warfare in order to protect their wealth. During an era of professed liberty and freedom, the privatization of state power was already emerging, replacing monarchies with corporate oligarchies, presaging a new kind of political power in the Atlantic world. The eighteenth-century Bristol slave merchants and subsequent generations of their families accrued great fortunes from the trade and invested it in early British banks, railroads, insurance companies, industrial manufacturing, and even the Anglican Church. Mutiny on the Black Prince narrates the dramatic story of the events onboard and the merchant owners' efforts to capture the rebels from around the Atlantic world, as well as the way that British slavery shaped the industrializing Atlantic economy and the evolution of the modern corporate state.
The Pirates’ Code
Author: Rebecca SimonPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789147417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Fall captive to the code—the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate’s life. Pirates have long captured our imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches, and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was a risky, sometimes deadly occupation, and strict orders were essential for everyone’s survival. These “Laws” were sets of rules that determined everything from how much each pirate earned from their plunder to compensation for injuries, punishments, and even the entertainment allowed on ships. These rules became known as the “Pirates’ Code,” which all pirates had to publicly swear by. Using primary sources like eyewitness accounts, trial proceedings, and maritime logs, this book explains how each one of the pirate codes was the key to pirates’ success in battle, on sea, and on land.
Public Execution in England, 1573-1868, Part I Vol 3
Author: Leigh YetterPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040233740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
The execution narrative was a popular genre in early modern England. This facsimile edition draws together a representative selection of texts to show the evolution of the genre from the late sixteenth century to the end of public execution in England nearly 300 years later.
Public Execution in England, 1573-1868: 1778-1868. v. 5. Introduction to Part III ; Public execution in England, 1778-1868. v. 6. Public execution in England, 1778-1868
Author: Leigh YetterPublisher:
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Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Land-war in Ireland
Author: James GodkinPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A Compendium of Irish Biography
Author: Alfred WebbIngatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning
Author: E. E. WildePublisher:
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Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Author: Tom PendergastPublisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The millenium-inspired fascination with 20th-century studies cannot be fully satisfied without a comprehensive and scholarly look at popular culture. With its emphasis on ideas, people, events and products that symbolize America, the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture is a cross-curriculum resource that will find use among a wide variety of users. Major topics include: television, movies, theater, art, books, magazines, radio, music, sports, fashion, health, politics, trends, community life and advertising.
Vatican Assassins
Author: Eric Jon PhelpsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780970499929
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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