Under the Black Flag Quotes

“Their activities reached a peak in the early years of the nineteenth century, when a community of around forty thousand pirates with some four hundred junks dominated the coastal waters and attacked any merchant vessels which strayed into the area. From 1807 these pirates were led by a remarkable woman called Mrs. Cheng, a former prostitute from Canton.”
― David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

“Morgan was sent copies and decided to sue both publishers for libel.”
― David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

“I have brought you to the treasure house of the world. If you leave without it you may henceforth blame nobody but yourself.”
― David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates