Author: Jeremiah Chaplin
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Duncan Dunbar, the Record of an Earnest Ministry
Author: Jeremiah Chaplin
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Duncan Dunbar; the Record of an Earnest Ministry. A Sketch of the Late Pastor of the MacDougal St. Baptist Church, New York
Author: Jeremiah Chaplin (the Younger.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Publishers' Weekly
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Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Author: Joseph Gibbs
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously 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. 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 in the rough work. After a heroic career in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, Jeffers eschewed military life and took to the privateer trade himself. As Charles Gibbs, pirate, he sailed from the ports of Charleston and New Orleans to wreak havoc in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Stripping away 170 years of embellishment, Joseph Gibbs maps the still-shockingly violent career of Charles Gibbs across the seas and, in the process, challenges and discredits much of his self-made mythology.Gibbs recounts Jeffers' 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. The pirate was captured the following year and brought to New York. The case against Jeffers and accomplice Thomas Wansley culminated in a sensational trial, which led to their subsequent executions by hanging on Ellis Island.In addition to recounting the exploits of a ruthless cutthroat, The Confessions of Charles Gibbs tells 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, and enhanced by twenty illustrations, this is pirate history at its most credible and readable.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously 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. 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 in the rough work. After a heroic career in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, Jeffers eschewed military life and took to the privateer trade himself. As Charles Gibbs, pirate, he sailed from the ports of Charleston and New Orleans to wreak havoc in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Stripping away 170 years of embellishment, Joseph Gibbs maps the still-shockingly violent career of Charles Gibbs across the seas and, in the process, challenges and discredits much of his self-made mythology.Gibbs recounts Jeffers' 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. The pirate was captured the following year and brought to New York. The case against Jeffers and accomplice Thomas Wansley culminated in a sensational trial, which led to their subsequent executions by hanging on Ellis Island.In addition to recounting the exploits of a ruthless cutthroat, The Confessions of Charles Gibbs tells 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, and enhanced by twenty illustrations, this is pirate history at its most credible and readable.
Catalogue of the Newton Free Library of Newton, Massachusetts, 1892
Author: Newton Free Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Catalogue of Books
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.