24 Hours in Port Royal, 1688 — The Wickedest City on Earth (Where Real Pirates Lived)

Step into Port Royal in 1688 — a city of six to ten thousand people crammed onto a spit of sand roughly the size of a modest modern airport, with more taverns per square foot than London, more stolen silver per merchant than anywhere else in the Atlantic world, and the most important anchorage in the entire Western Hemisphere.
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