HI127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stede Bonnet, Sentenced, Rhett Butler
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Born 1688, barbados: barbados was a huge slave/cotton area. 1709: married mary allenby: first born child died. 1716: pirate threat: bought his own ship (very unusual, told ship sellers he planned on being a privateer. 1716: revenge (name of the ship: 60 tons, ten cannons, 70 men. Hired crew: offered to pay them good wages in order to attract them to become crew, had to do this because he had no money or reputation. Jacobites had a political interest in attacking british merchant ships in the name of george stewart (king george) Library: built it on board of his ship, stocked it with reading material. Left barbados, spring 1717: left wife and 3 surviving children behind, never to see them again. Founded 1663-70: settlers: bermuda then barbados, virginia, england, 1717: 3,000 citizens, slave plantations majority african, trade by sea. Second victim: joseph palmer: sugar, rum, slaves, could(cid:374)(cid:859)t fit all sla(cid:448)es o(cid:374) his ship, took (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol of his a(cid:374)d pal(cid:373)er(cid:859)s ship.
