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The Atrocities of the Pirates

by Aaron Smith (7-1862)

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 courthouse — with the attorney general himself leading the
prosecution. Smith's dramatic account of his personal experience is a
brutally honest, unromanticized look at piracy in the 19th century.

(Summary by Google Books)

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Read by James K. White

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Cover design: Kathryn Delaney

Cover Art: Howard Pyle, And Then the Real Fight Started, 191 1

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