[External Resource] Mutiny and Murder: Confession of Charles, Gibbs, a Native of Rhode Island, Who, with Thomas J. Wansley, was Doomed to be Hung in New York on the 22d of April Last, for the Murder of the Captain and Mate of the Brig Vineyard on Her Pass
[External Resource] Mutiny and Murder: Confession of Charles, Gibbs, a Native of Rhode Island, Who, with Thomas J. Wansley, was Doomed to be Hung in New York on the 22d of April Last, for the Murder of the Captain and Mate of the Brig Vineyard on Her Pass
[External Resource] Mutiny and Murder: Confession of Charles, Gibbs, a Native of Rhode Island, Who, with Thomas J. Wansley, was Doomed to be Hung in New York on the 22d of April Last, for the Murder of the Captain and Mate of the Brig Vineyard on Her Pass
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Gibbs confesses to his life as a pirate and admits to murdering over 400 individuals during his career. The short pamphlet also contains an account of the trial of Gibbs and Wansley during which Wansley claimed the court only convicted him because he was an African American. The short pamphlet concludes with a warning to young people to avoid falling into a life of crime like Gibbs did.