On the account
Subtitle: piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835
By: Joseph Gibbs
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Portland OR
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845194765
Subjects: Piracy; Sources; Pirates; Mutiny; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Veterans in blood and murder : the mutiny aboard the Polly and the trial of Joseph Andrews (1766, 1769); title: "All tory by God" : mutiny aboard the St. Louis; title: "A heart hard enough to kill a man" : the Eliza mutiny and the trial of ¿three foreigners¿ (1799-1800); title: "The most abject slavery" : the United States and the Barbary pirates (1793-1804); title: "A horrible crime to think upon" : mutiny on the George Washington; title: "The greatest villains that ever blackened the human character" : the privateers of the Gulf and Caribbean (1814-1821); title: "They took to their heels" : Kearny's enterprise at Cape Antonio (1821-1822); title: "Her red flag [was] nailed to the mast" : the campaign against piracy in the Gulf and Caribbean (1822-1825); title: "No evidence of a contrite heart" : the Vineyard mutiny and the piracy confessions of Charles Gibbs (1830-1831); title: "Demons in the shape of men" : the taking of the Mexican and its aftermath (1832-1835).