Edward Ned' Low's career in piracy began with a single gunshot.
While working on a logging ship in the Bay of Honduras the
quick-tempered Ned was provoked by the ship's captain. He responded
by grabbing a musket and inciting a mutiny. Then the London-born
sailor and a dozen of his crewmates held a council, stitched a
black flag and voted to make war against the whole world preying on
ships from any nation, flying any flag. Low's name became
synonymous with brutality and torture during the 1720s as he cut a
swathe of destruction from the shores of Nova Scotia to the Azores,
the coast of Africa and throughout the Caribbean. Ned Low's life
was one of failed redemption: A thief from childhood who briefly
rose in the world, only to fall again lower and harder than before.
He was feared even by his own crew, and during his life on the
wrong side of the law he became infamous for his extreme violence,
fatalistic behaviour, and became perhaps one of the best examples
of why pirates were classed in Admiralty Law as hostis humani
generis: the common enemies of all mankind.
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