Tag: Jean Laffite Society
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Remembering Pam Keyes: the woman who knew Jean Laffite
When I was writing my novel Theodosia and the Pirates, I was reading The Journal of Jean Laffite and trying to reconcile it with an 1823 obituary claiming he had died in a sea battle off the Honduran coast. The obituary troubled me. If the Journal was authentic — and I believed it was —…