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Introduction: the sorrowful tale of Robert Snead. Part I. Beginnings. London fog: a brief, confusing history of English piracy law. The phantom fleet of Porto Principe: privateering and admiralty, 1660-1688. "A spot upon our garment": the Red Sea fever in colonial New York, 1691-1698. Part II. An empire in crisis. Voyage of the Fancy, 1696. The successful pyrate: a tale of two trials. The ballad of Henry Every: criminality and print culture in the public sphere. Part III. Pirate nests. "Ignorance of their duty": a New Jersey warning, 1697. A society of friends: piracy and Quakerism in Pennsylvania. "A bloody crew of privateers": resistance and right in Rhode Island. Part IV. Rope's end. The bonds of slavery: law, letters, and the Resumption Bill of 1701-2. From community to periphery: trial and execution in the American colonies, 1705-1730. Conclusion: forgotten revolutions |
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