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02581cam a2200337Ia 4500 001 A03C3F5CFBCE11DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 003 SILO 005 20150520012456 008 081027r20092008nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0307390551 020 $a 9780307390554 035 $a (OCoLC)264044199 040 $a BTCTA $c BTCTA $d SILO $d LD4 $d NTE $d IOJ $d SILO 082 04 $a 973.3/5 $2 22 100 1 $a Patton, Robert H. $q (Robert Holbrook), $d 1957- 245 1 $a Patriot pirates : $b the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution / $c Robert H. Patton. 250 $a 1st Vintage Books ed. 260 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, $c 2009. 300 $a xxii, 291 p. : $b ill. ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references ( p. [275]-278) and index. 505 0 $a 1775 Machias, Maine -- 1776 Boston, Massachusetts -- 1776 Providence, Rhode Island -- 1776 Brooklyn, New York -- 1778 Barbados, West Indies -- 1779 Penobscot, Maine -- 1779 New London, Connecticut -- 1780 Newfoundland, Canada -- 1782 Portsmouth, England -- 1782 Brooklyn, New York -- 1783 Providence, Rhode Island. 520 $a A revelation of America's War of Independence, a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal profit as well as national freedom. Privateers were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy trade as they could successfully haul back to America's shores. Patton writes how privateering engaged all levels of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assembly halls; how it gave rise to an often cutthroat network of agents who sold captured goods and sparked wild speculation in purchased shares in privateer ventures, enabling sailors to make more money in a month than they might otherwise earn in a year; and how they turned their seafaring talents to the slave trade. Vast fortunes made through privateering survive to this day, among them those of the Peabodys, Cabots, and Lowells of Massachusetts, and the Derbys and Browns of Rhode Island.--From publisher description. 651 0 $a United States $x Naval operations. $y Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Naval operations. 650 0 $a Privateering $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 600 10 $a Franklin, Benjamin, $d 1706-1790. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z France. 651 0 $a France $x Foreign relations $z United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20120111043945.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A03C3F5CFBCE11DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 994 $a 02 $b IOJInitiate Another SILO Locator Search