Pirate Corner: Captain Misson and Libertalia
Was there really a revolutionary pirate Utopia in seventeenth century Madagascar? Content note: slavery, colonialism, forced marriage. The same Ladybird Book of Pirates in which I first discovered Red Legs Greaves included, alongside such real life luminaries as Blackbeard and Aruj Barbarossa, some other swashbucklers of dubious authenticity. But while the most suspicious thing about Greaves is his total absence from early sources, one of these did go back to the single most
