Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves : Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World.
"In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich market...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
2015.
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| Series: | Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Imprint.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt130jt3q |
Table of Contents:
- The spectrum of piracy
- New York merchants and the Indo-Atlantic trade
- Utopian dreamers and colonial disasters
- Pirate-settlers of Madagascar
- Seafaring slaves and freedom in the Indo-Atlantic world.