Meanwhile he served an apprenticeship to his father, but this came to an abrupt end when the old man died. It was said that in his childhood he was “bred a Pick-Pocket,” and that he later became a house-breaker. His father was an anchor-smith “who gave his son Walter the best education he was able.” The times were hard and so was young Kennedy B he was poor, illiterate, known to have “a too aspiring temper,” and often on the wrong side of the law. Kennedy’ s family, like his community, lived by the sea. Walter Kennedy was born at Pelican Stairs, Wapping, the sailor town of London, in 1695, the year in which Henry Avery, “the maritime Robin Hood,” led a mutiny, turned pirate, and captured a treasure ship in the Indian Ocean. Index Excerpt from Chapter Three, “Who Will Go a Pyrating?” Villains of All Nations Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age Table of ContentsĬhapter 2: The Political Arithmetic of PiracyĬhapter 4: “The New Government of the Ship”Ĭhapter 4: The Women Pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary ReadĬhapter 5: “To Extirpate Them Out of the World”
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