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The Atrocities of the Pirates
Author: Aaron Smith
Narrator: Unknown
Unabridged: 2 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Published: Not Available
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Caribbean & West Indies History
Synopsis
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. Forced to work as a navigator and as a member of pirate boarding parties, he witnessed unspeakable acts of murder and torture. Befriended by a young Cuban woman, he managed to escape with his life, but was arrested as a pirate in Havana and sent back to England in chains. There, he found himself on trial for his life at the Old Bailey courthousewith the attorney general himself leading the prosecution. Smith's dramatic account of his personal experience is a brutally honest, unromanticized [sic] look at piracy in the 19th century.