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In the summer of 1723, Charles Thompson seized the HMS Greyhound not with cannon fire but with forged Admiralty papers and a crew disguised as naval inspectors, exposing systemic corruption in Jamaica’s naval provisioning system. Unlike flamboyant contemporaries, he operated through bureaucratic subterfuge, exploiting gaps between London directives and colonial enforcement. His logbooks, recovered from a sunken sloop off Port Royal in 2008, reveal meticulous records of grain shipments diverted to feed starving Maroon communities, blurring lines between piracy, insurgency, and proto-colonial resistance. Thompson never flew the Jolly Roger; his flag was a torn Union Jack stitched with red thread over a black field, symbolizing revoked commission rather than rebellion. He negotiated directly with Spanish officials in Santo Domingo to secure safe passage for enslaved runaways seeking asylum, leveraging maritime law clauses most captains ignored. His 1726 trial in Kingston ended not in execution but in indefinite detention aboard a hulk, because no court could agree whether his acts constituted treason, privateering, or judicial sabotage.
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