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- Book Title
- Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Publication Name
- Dead Men Tell No Tales : the Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs
- Title
- Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Subtitle
- James Jeffers, Privateering, and Piracy in the Americas, 1816-183
- Contributor
- William N. Still (Series edited by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9781570036934
- ISBN
- 9781570036934
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Genre
- Biography
- Subject
- United States / 19th Century, General, Maritime History & Piracy, Criminals & Outlaws
- Release Date
- 30/09/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 16.2 Oz
- Series
- Studies in Maritime History Ser.
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But shortly before execution for mutiny and murder in 1831, the enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of confessions. Wildly popular reading among nineteenth-century audiences, such criminal confessions were peppered with the romanticized mythology that informs pirate lore to this day. Author Joseph Gibbs takes up the task of separating fact from fiction to explicate the true story of Charles Gibbs--an alias for James Jeffers (1798-1831) of Newport, Rhode Island--in an investigation that reveals a life as riveting as the legend it replaces. Jeffers was the child of a Revolutionary War privateer captain with his own history of rough work. Following his father into the privateer trade on behalf of Latin American insurgents, he soon turned to outright piracy, sailing from Cuban ports to wreak havoc in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico aboard a series of commandeered schooners. Along the way, he admittedly had a hand in the taking of dozens of ships and hundreds of lives. Stripping away 170 years of embellishment, Joseph Gibbs maps the still shockingly violent saga of James Jeffers across the seas and in the process challenges and discredits much of the pirate's mythology. He dismisses, for example, Jeffers' claims of War of 1812 heroism, and shows how his confessions were augmented and distorted by generations of writers fascinated by the man's story. The author also recounts Jeffers's well-documented role in the infamous mutiny and murders in 1830 aboard the brig Vineyard while the vessel was carrying a load of Mexican silver. Arrested within days of setting foot on the New York shore, the case against Jeffers and accomplice Thomas Wansley culminated in a sensational trial which ended in their subsequent executions by hanging on Ellis Island. In addition to recounting the life of a ruthless pirate, Dead Men Tell No Tales reconstructs the larger story of American piracy and privateering in the early nineteenth century and illustrates the role of American and European adventurers in the Latin American wars of liberation. Carefully researched, engagingly written, this book is pirate history at its most credible and readable.
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Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
ISBN-10
1570036934
ISBN-13
9781570036934
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63100275
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Dead Men Tell No Tales : the Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
United States / 19th Century, General, Maritime History & Piracy, Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
2007
Series
Studies in Maritime History Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2007-007329
Lc Classification Number
G537.G5g53 2007
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
910.45
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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