CAS HI 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gonorrhea, Silver Spoons, Syphilis
12 Nov 2014
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1728: a history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pirates. Charles johnson; most of what we know about life of pirates from this book; don"t know who wrote it, charles johnson is a very bland name, prob an alias; believed that actual writer is. Daniel defoe (prolific writer, wrote a lot of books and enjoyed using pseudonyms, writer of. Robinson crusoe; defoe published a forgery that wasn"t really a forgery, a journal of the plague. Year (a diary, day-by-day novel of the life of someone during plague), believed to actually be a diary and not realized that it was a work of fiction by defoe until the 1900s) Onboard a ship, only captain and quartermaster are literate; the records they left behind don"t really describe life as a pirate, usually only maps and contracts and not a lot of those articles survived.
