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02350nim a2200385Ia 4500 001 765BBD946BF411DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20161106100842 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 080529s2008 xxunnnn h n eng d 020 $a 1400106605 020 $a 9781400106608 040 $a HBP $c HBP $d SILO $d JIM $d SILO 043 $a e-fr--- $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a E271 $b .P27 2008 082 0 $a 973.3/5 $2 22 100 1 $a Patton, Robert H. $q (Robert Holbrook), $d 1957- 245 1 $a Patriot pirates $h [sound recording] : $b the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution / $c Robert H. Patton. 260 $a [s.l.] : $b Tantor, $c 2008. 300 $a 9 sound discs (10.5 hr.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 511 $a Read by Alan Sklar. 500 $a Compact disc. 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. 650 0 $a Audiobooks. 700 1 $a Sklar, Alan. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409051731.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=765BBD946BF411DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b JIMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search