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Chronicling America is a searchable digital collection of historic newspaper pages through 1963 sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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Also, see the Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries, a searchable index to newspapers published in the United States since 1690, which helps researchers identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them.
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The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
The timeline below highlights important dates related to this topic and a section of this guide provides some suggested search strategies for further research in the collection.
| June 18, 1907 | “Enslaved by a Pirate” makes its debut in the Seattle Star. |
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| June 28, 1907 | Robert meets Colonel Flakey Crust aboard the “Baby Mine.” |
| July 4, 1907 | After rousing fisticuffs, Robert becomes the new captain. |
| July 5, 1907 | Robert leads the pirates in his first raid. |
| July 9, 1907 | In an ironic twist of fate, the pirates maroon Robert on a desert island. |
| July 10, 1907 | Flakey Crust sells his ship, because “honesty is the best piracy.” |
