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Naughty Navy (New England's Collectible Classics)
Naughty Navy - New England's Collectible Classics Author:Robert Cahill In the late 1600’s, New England boasted of having some 500 vessels occupied in slave trading. About the same time, the treacherous pirate Blackbeard chose Rhode Island as one of his final ports-of-call. Trafficking with the West Indies lead to the Navigation Acts on American merchants and seamen, and eventually lead to the "spirit of freedom." A... more »nd a few merchant seamen in little cargo ships take on the British Navy, the greatest navy in the world, over a little tax on stamps and tea? You’ve got to be kidding!« less