Volume 34, Number 1 · January 29, 1987
Success Story
By Christopher Hill
Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates
by Robert C. Ritchie
Harvard University Press, 306 pp., $20.00
Outlaws, highwaymen, smugglers, pirates, train robbers—they have always had a romantic appeal, and much public sympathy. It was difficult to get seventeenth-century English juries to return guilty verdicts against pirates. By the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when pirates did a roaring trade with New York and other American ports, it was better to ship them back to England for trial if possible. For by then Englishmen had become aware of the overall importance of trade for the national economy.
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