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Arts & Humanities > History (Other) Pirates and privateers: Captain John Avery 'The Arch Pirate'

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Born Henery Every in 1653 in the English town of Plymouth this sailor from his youth was also known as John Avary, Long Ben and Benjamin Bridgeman (and probably others duting his lifetime). He begain his sea life by serving on several Royal Navy vessels. Accounts place him aboard an English ship during the bombardment of Algiers (1671), as a buccaneer in the Caribbean Sea and as a Captain of a logging ahip.

By the early 1690's he had entered the slave trade in the Atlantic Ocean was was known on the West African Coast. He had a reputation for buying slaves and then seizing their capt...

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