204 pgs. 1993. i Upper elementary, middle school, high school.

The swashbuckling sea robbers—Blackbeard, Ann Boney, Mary Reed, Stede Bonnet, etc.—who once infested the Atlantic Coast roamed from Newport, Rhode Island, to St. Augustine, Florida. Their callous cruelty may make you shiver and their gentlemanly nature may sometimes surprise you, but you will not soon forget these men and women who lived by the cutlass and usually died on the gallows.

Curriculum applications: 3rd, 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies - biography, colonial era; 4th-8th Grade Language Arts

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