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1820s Births: Master Juba, Albert W. Hicks, Patrick James Smyth, Mary Rogers, Sara Flower, Spotted Elk, John Francis, the Boy Jones |
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Paperback |
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110 |
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2010-05-23 |
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115675643X |
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Books LLC |
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0.38 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.24 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Master Juba, Albert W. Hicks, Patrick James Smyth, Mary Rogers, Sara Flower, Spotted Elk, John Francis, the Boy Jones, Awful Gardner, Victorio, Edmund Blanchard, George Sandford, Catherine O'leary, Juh, Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther, 8th Baronet, John Newman, Andrew Charles Elliott, Barbu Bălcescu, Edward Payson Terhune, James Jackson, Jr., Stephen Talkhouse, Charles Bargue, John Caldicott, Henry Lehman, Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan, James B. Simmons, David Mcdermut, Thomas A. Walker, Thomas Bowers. Excerpt: Albert W. Hicks (c. 1820 July 13, 1860), also known as William Johnson, John Hicks and 'Pirate Hicks', was the name of the last person executed for piracy in the United States (though the execution of the slaver Nathaniel Gordon in 1862 was under the terms of the Piracy Law of 1820 ).Confession "The affair occurred," said Hicks, "about half past nine or ten o'clock at night, while Captain Burr and one of the Watts boys were asleep in the cabin. I was steering at the time, and the other Watts was on the lookout at the bow. Suddenly the devil took possession of me, and I determined to murder the captain and crew that very night. Creeping forward softly I stole upon the boy at the bow, and with one blow knocked him senseless. I believe be died in a few minutes after I struck him. The noise attracted the attention of the other Watts, who jumped out of bed, and came up the companion way to see what was the matter. Just at that moment I struck him a heavy blow on the head with the axe and soon he was dead. Then I went down in search of the captain, and upon going into the cabin we immediately came in contact. Captain Burr,. who was a strong, able bodied man fought hard with me for several minutes; but at last I brought him down, and he, too, was soon dead. After rifling the ca...
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