Angus Konstam brought his 30 years of research to create the definitive book on the Golden Age of Piracy. Many of the privateers the British had used to prey on French and Spanish shipping during the War of the Spanish Succession turned to piracy. The pirates took over Nassau on the Bahamian island of New Providence and turned it into their own pirate haven, where shady merchants were happy to buy their plunder. It became the hub of a pirate network that included some of the

Blackbeard, a name that has gone down in history. He has to be the most famous pirate who sailed during the Golden Age of Piracy and it's not because he plundered a lot of loot or captured many ships, not compared with other pirates of the age, He did manage to blockade Charlestown for over a week, taking hostages and demanding medicine. If they didn't receive the medicine, he threatened to execute each and every one of his prisoners. What Blackbeard was, however, was bloody