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Joseph Gibbs Dead Men Tell No Tales (Hardback) Studies in Maritime History
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- Book Title
- Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Title
- Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Subtitle
- James Jeffers, Privateering, and Piracy in the Americas, 1816-183
- Contributor
- William N. Still (Series edited by)
- EAN
- 9781570036934
- ISBN
- 9781570036934
- Genre
- Biography
- Topic
- History
- Release Date
- 30/09/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 456g
- Series
- Studies in Maritime History
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Confessions of Charles Gibbs: James Jeffers, Privateering, and Piracy in the Americas, 1816-1830
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Subject
- History
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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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.
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University of South Carolina Press
ISBN-13
9781570036934
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95164271
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Publication Name
The Confessions of Charles Gibbs: James Jeffers, Privateering, and Piracy in the Americas, 1816-1830
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Studies in Maritime History
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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