Republic of Pirates - Book

Illuminates the brief span of 1715-1725 when Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonney and their compatriots wreaked havoc. Chronicles the men who brought them down and the end of The Republic of Pirates. Surprising reading.

Journalist Colin Woodard, also the author of The Lobster Coast and American Nations, tells the true story of the pirate captains who joined forces in the early 1700s, including Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy and Charles Vane. Many of their crews were sailors, indentured servants and runaway slaves, and in the Bahamas they set up a rough democracy of their own, where leaders were chosen or removed by vote.

Woodard also follows the man sent to bring the pirate republic down. Published by Harvest Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) as a 383-page paperback.