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Rebecca Simon

History Adjunct/Author, Santa Monica College, California

Rebecca Simon is a historian of early modern piracy, Colonial America, the Atlantic World, and maritime history. She is a history adjunct at Santa Monica College and the author of Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever (2020). She lives in Los Angeles.

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Written by Rebecca Simon

Vintage painting of John Gow; depicts his intense face in foreground, his hanging and soldiers in the background.

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‘It cannot be helped’: on facing death as calmly as a pirate

‘Don’t make yourself uneasy, for it cannot be helped’: how to face death calmly and generously, like a pirate facing execution

by Rebecca Simon