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  • A Story of Survival
    Baylus C Brooks
    In this book, author Baylus C. Brooks, a descendant of a Revolutionary War patriot writes about patriots of color and reflects on the contradictions of fighting for freedom while engaging in slavery. Beaufort County patriots of color and other local patriots, risked their lives in pursuit of liberty, questioning whether the new nation would extend its ideals of freedom to all c...
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    9,42 €

  • Dictionary of Pyrate Biography
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    From the author of 'Quest for Blackbeard,' more than 720 entries have been researched historically and genealogically, where applicable, to describe the Golden Age of Piracy in the most detail now possible with the extraordinary availability of records from around the world! Included are the many pirates themselves, their families, facilitators of piracy, and some of their more...
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    58,25 €

  • Sailing East
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    Five West-Indian pirates attempt to recapture 17th-century pirate glory on the East-Indian isle of Madagascar. Edward England, Edward Congdon, Olivier LeVasseur, and Richard Taylor sail to Madagascar in 1720 and join with Jasper Seager to make havoc against the East-Indian Company. These are the stories of their misadventures and lives. Some lived opulently - some died horrible...
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    34,63 €

  • Jacob de Bucquoy
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    Jacob de Bucquoy, born 26 October 1693, was a hydrographer and cartographer of the Netherlands. He began his career as a cartographer in Europe and then from 1721, he worked for the Dutch East India Company or VOC. During his first overseas excursion to Dutch Fort Lijdzaamheid at Delagoa on the southeast coast of Africa to map the river there, however, he was interrupted in thi...
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    10,84 €

  • Pirates & Slaves
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    What are the origins of American Racism and Piracy - how did we get to Donald Trump and the corporate domination of our democracy? How did piracy develop in the Americas? Who benefitted? Who suffered? Why did America keep it? With the racist and irresponsible Trump administration’s essential destruction of America’s world reputation, these become essential questions and this is...
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    23,43 €

  • Fountain of Hope
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    The history of St. Augustine, Florida may be wrong. Native Americans from one North Florida tribe are said to have lived for centuries due to the inexplicable power of a mysterious source of water. Some say this is not true. Early explorers went in search of this ÒFountain of YouthÓ only to come back disappointed. Still, the Fountain did indeed exist. Young Lt. Stephen Hathor...
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    40,23 €

  • Murder at Ocracoke!
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    Read the exciting details concerning the most notorious murder of all time! You decide who to blame! Edward 'Blackbeard' Thache has been misrepresented, misunderstood, and rhetorically damned in the 300 years since 'A General History of the Pyrates' was first published in 1724. Indeed, Thache and his reputation has all but been lost to us. This book explores the details, motiva...
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    11,24 €

  • Brunswick Town and Wilmington
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    This story of Brunswick Town, the Cape Fear region’s first port city, provided a deep-water port that accommodated trans-Atlantic shipping on the only easily accessible river in the colony of North Carolina. Contemporary accounts stated that it was like to be a 'flourishing place,' while town lot sales reflected its profitability in 1731. However, Brunswick Town was not desti...
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    11,13 €

  • Quest for Blackbeard
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    Over 2 lbs, with 614 pages of text, tables, and graphs! Do you know who 'Blackbeard the Pirate' was? Probably not! Born into a substantial family in Bristol, the eldest son of Capt. Edward and Elizabeth Thache sailed for Jamaica with his family sometime before 1695. Capt. Edward Thache of St. Jago de la Vega or 'Spanish Town' died there at age 47 while his son, Edward 'Blackbea...
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    45,80 €

  • Pirates & Slaves
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    Making America was a compromise between democracy and brutality - between pirates and slavers. Piracy was a business, long accepted as valid in America - arguably still accepted today. America held onto it tightly. Once legitimized into a sovereign, slaving nation, piracy moved to the land and became a system of economics only slightly removed from piracy itself. It became our...
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    23,52 €

  • Captain James Wimble of Hastings, Sussex County, England
    Baylus C. Brooks / Baylus CBrooks
    From the author of Blackbeard Reconsidered! James Wimble was best known for his map of the Lower Cape Fear Region in 1733, and especially for his final map of 1738. Wimble saved the fledgling port town of Wilmington, North Carolina from certain ruin. As Alan D. Watson, in Wilmington, North Carolina, to 1861 put it, Wimble 'no doubt was the prime instigator of the new town.' L...
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    11,07 €