BLACK FLAGS, BLUE WATERS recounts the rogue seamen who terrorized the shipping routes in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, unnerved the superpowers of the day, and ultimately reflected the brash new nation to come. The book covers the period of the early 1600's to 1726 when pirates pillaged up and down the Eastern seaboard and into the Gulf of Mexico -- from Maine to the Carolina's, to Mississippi and beyond.
Charting the evolving nature of piracy as it ranged across oceans and chased the latest wealth, BLACK FLAGS, BLUE WATERS spotlights the flamboyant figures who—in addition to the better known Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Henry Morgan—rode the waves until their often violent and well publicized demises. A gripping and entertaining read, Eric Jay Dolin provides a fresh take on one of history’s most colorful chapters.