Gentlemen of Fortune The Forgotten Aristocrats of the Golden Age of Piracy and the War That Erased Them

Gentlemen of Fortune The Forgotten Aristocrats of the Golden Age of Piracy and the War That Erased Them

Julia Wolbrook

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Serena Capuozzo
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2026
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9798237689846
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Everything you know about pirates was written by the people who destroyed them.Blackbeard was no ragged outcast. Born into a Jamaican planter’s family, a Royal Navy veteran with land, enslaved workers, and a name in the parish registers, Edward Thache was one of the gentlemen of fortune: wealthy privateers, merchants, and planters who ruled the Atlantic’s treasure trade long before the black flag became a symbol of terror.On July 30, 1715, a hurricane wrecked a Spanish fleet carrying fourteen million pesos in silver off the coast of Florida. Within months, the gentlemen of Jamaica, Bermuda, and the Carolinas were racing the wreckers of Nassau for the prize. Then Britain, its sugar fortunes at stake, declared war on piracy, and fought it with something more powerful than warships: words. Pamphlets, newspapers, and one wildly popular book turned heroes into monsters and erased the aristocrats from history.Drawing on parish records, wills, deeds, and long-buried depositions, Gentlemen of Fortune tells the true story of the men behind the legend, and of the propaganda campaign that may have been Britain’s first victory in the battle for American independence.

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