Pirates and Buccaneers of our Coasts takes the mains protagonists of the era and relates their exploits and follows them through their bloody deeds around the Carribbean.There are all the famous Pirates such as Blackbeard plus a couple of notorious female pirates,so there is nothing new in equality in the workplace.Many were using supposed loyalty to their countries to line their own pockets, and used fear and brutality to quell rebellion in their ports of call and sometimes mutiny at sea.It was definitely a time of winner takes all, and retirement was ever more tenuous and few made old age.Buccaneers and Pirates exposes some historical myths and is well worth reading.