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Captain Charles Johnson, the author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, has not been identified.

It has often been assumed that the name Captain Charles Johnson was a pseudonym, but nothing definitive has been determined about who he may have been. For a period of nearly fifty years, the prevailing theory was that the author's true identity was Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe. But that theory has been challenged and invalidated based on a lack of supporting evidence. Nonetheless, his book, which is in the public domain, has been published in a large number of editions by various publishers and in translations around the world, often employing the name Daniel Defoe on the cov ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 2,018 ratings · 149 reviews · 108 distinct works

	A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson, David Cordingly (Introduction) 3.72 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1724 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson, David Cordingly (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 57 ratings — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson, David Cordingly 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Real Pirates of the Caribbean (Complete Edition: Volume 1&2): The Incredible Lives & Actions of the Most Notorious Pirates in History: Charles Vane, ... John Rackam, Anne Bonny, Edward Low… 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Men Tell No Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventure Classics 3.26 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pirate Tales: 80+ Novels, Stories, Legends & History of the True Buccaneers by Charles Johnson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lives of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson, Christopher Lloyd (Editor) 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson, Richard West (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storia generale dei pirati 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Reason—we go according to Law.—Is our dinner ready? Attorney-General. Yes, my Lord. Judge. Then harkee you rascal at the Bar, hear me, Sirrah, hear me.—You must be hanged for three reasons: First, because it is not fit that I should sit as Judge, and no-body to be hang’d: Secondly, You must be hang’d because you have a damn’d hanging Look: Thirdly, You must be hanged, because I am hungry. There’s Law for you, ye dog; take him away, Gaoler.”
― Charles Johnson, Pirates

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“But, perhaps, if there was less Law, there might be more Justice, than in some other Courts; for, if the civil Law be a Law of universal Reason, judging of the Rectitude, or Obliquity of Mens Actions, every Man of common Sense is endued with a Portion of it, at least sufficient to make him distinguish Right from Wrong, or what the Civilians call, Malum in se.”
― Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time

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“Nor is this all, he has been guilty of worse villany than this, and that is of drinking of small beer; and your Lordship knows, there was never a sober fellow but what was a rogue”
― Charles Johnson, Pirates

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