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The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of PiracyCaptain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice, a behindthescenes player who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies.That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a welltodo woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson in reinvention and resourcefulness. Twice widowed by twentyone and operating within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth and eighteenthcentury New York, Sarah secretly aided and abetted her husband, fighting alongside him against his accusers. More remarkable still was that Sarah not only survived the tragedy wrought by her infamous husbands deeds, but went on to live a successful and productive life as one of New Yorks most prominent citizens.Marshaling in newly discovered primarysource documents from archives in London, New York and Boston, historian and journalist Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos reconstructs the extraordinary life of Sarah Kidd, uncovering a rare example of the kind of life that pirate wives lived during the Golden Age of Piracy. A compelling tale of love, treasure, motherhood and survival, this landmark work of narrative nonfiction weaves together the personal and the epic in a sweeping historical story of romance and adventure.
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The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of PiracyCaptain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice, a behindthescenes player who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies.That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a welltodo woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson in reinvention and resourcefulness. Twice widowed by twentyone and operating within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth and eighteenthcentury New York, Sarah secretly aided and abetted her husband, fighting alongside him against his accusers. More remarkable still was that Sarah not only survived the tragedy wrought by her infamous husbands deeds, but went on to live a successful and productive life as one of New Yorks most prominent citizens.Marshaling in newly discovered primarysource documents from archives in London, New York and Boston, historian and journalist Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos reconstructs the extraordinary life of Sarah Kidd, uncovering a rare example of the kind of life that pirate wives lived during the Golden Age of Piracy. A compelling tale of love, treasure, motherhood and survival, this landmark work of narrative nonfiction weaves together the personal and the epic in a sweeping historical story of romance and adventure.
