Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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Now let's get to the reading.

This evening we're reading from a work that perhaps more than any other shaped our image of a very well-known subject.

A general history of the Pirates, from their first rise in settlement in the island of Providence

to the present time, with the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pirates,

Mary Reed and Anne Bonnie,

to which is added, a short abstract of the statute of civil law in relation to piracy.

Second Edition with considerable editions, printed for and sold by T Warner at the Black Boy

in Paternoster Row, London, 1724

by Captain Charles Johnson

the pseudonym of Daniel Defoe.

Let's begin.

The Preface Having taken more than ordinary pains in collecting the materials which compose the following history,

we could not be satisfied with ourselves, if anything were wanting to it, which might render it entirely satisfactory to the public.

It is for this reason we have subjoined to the work a short abstract of the laws now enforce against

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