charles town pirates
Pirates were once encouraged in Charles Town. During the first two decades of the
eighteenth century pirates preyed on the Spanish galleons carrying gold and other
treasure from Florida to Spain. Charles Town tavern owners and shopkeepers
embraced those free-spending agents of the SWEET TRADE. However, after 1718,
there was an increase of attacks on British ships bound to and from Charles Town,
plundering by the likes of

•      
  Blackbeard & Stede Bonnet, the "Gentleman” Pirate.
•        Charles Vane,
•        
Calico Jack Rackham & Anne Bonny
Coast of High Barbary
by Joseph Authur
Wicked CHARLESTON
The Dark Side of the Holy City