Captain Blood [Paperback]

Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions. Abounding with adventure, color, romance, and strong social commentary on the evils of slavery and the dangers of intolerance, this classic adventure is a story about how oppression drives men to desperate actions, how fate plays a hand in everyone's life, and how love is ultimately the greatest power of all.

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Suggestions for Further Reading   xxvii

I.       The Messenger   1
II.      Kirke's Dragons   10
III.     The Lord Chief Justice   19
IV.     Human Merchandise   33
V.      Arabella Bishop   40
VI.     Plans of Escape   53
VII.    Pirates   69
VIII.   Spaniards   80
IX.     The Rebels-Convict   87
X.      Don Diego   100
XI.     Filial Piety   106
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