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Frank Sherry is a former journalist whose non-fiction work includes Pacific Passions: The European Struggle for Power in the Great Ocean in the Age of Exploration. He lives in Missouri.
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Newgate, already an ancient pile of damp stone when Kidd was brought there, was a foul overcrowded warren of dank corridors and dark cells. It stank of the fetid odors of unwashed prisoners’ bodies and of piles of excrement. So bad was the stench that it was the custom for visitors to bring a bunch of flowers with them to inhale while inside the noisome place. Prisoners had to be doused in vinegar to kill the odor before court appearances.
One peculiar effect of the pirate presence in the Caribbean—often complained of by planters and merchants—was the unrest it spread among the black slaves who worked in the cane fields of the sugar islands. These slaves, hearing that they would be welcomed in the pirate republic, began to run away in ever-increasing numbers, bent on becoming pirates.
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