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A Short Life and a Merry One: Empire, Family, and Confraternity in the Journal of Captain Jack Cremer

Posted on March 16, 2022by mia.swenson

“’If youth did know whate Age doth Crave Manney a penny they would save.’ But I was always for a Short life and Merry one.” – Ramblin’ Jack By the eighteenth century, Britain had solidified its status as a nation heavily supported by sea trade. In the previous century England had emerged as an imperial […]

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