Product Description

Here is a long out-of-print factual account of the most infamous pirate to terrorize the colonial sea-lanes of Virginia and the Carolinas, Blackbeard whose real name was Edward Teach.

In the seventeenth century, Blackbeard and numerous other pirates roamed the eastern seaboard, scavenging shipping lanes, terrorizing merchant ships, and confounding authorities. They could be visciously cruel; they could be inexplicably gallant.

A century ago a young scholar, Shirley Carter Hughson, wrote of the havoc these pirates caused along the Carolina coast. His work was originaly published in 1894 under the title "The Carolina Pirates and Colonial Commerce, 1670-1740". It is here reissued under the title "Blackbeard and the Carolina Pirates" with an added bibliography, index, illustrations, and icludes a preface by Donald Grady Shomette, well known author of "Pirates of the Chesapeake".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #415505 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 143 pages

About the Author
The Rev. Shirley Carter Hughson (1867-1949) was a native of South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina, Johns Hopkins University and the General Theological Seminary of New York City. Before his death he had become chaplain general and superior general of the Order of the Holy Cross at Westminster, Maryland, and authored several religious books in addition to "The Carolina Pirates and Colonial Commerce, 1670-1740".

Customer Reviews

A Little Bit of Blackbeard
The first of the book is dedicated to the history of Blackbeard. It includes familar and mostly "known" facts and tid bits about the man. It also includes a small number of discrepancies in historical details I recall. This is a small portion of the book and seems to be written with a local (Hampton Roads) flair. The majority of the book is about many of the pirates raiding along the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is pages from another author having lived closer in time to the days of piracy. It consists of politics, daily life, and the rise and fall of piracy in the time of coloial life.