This coup de main gave Morgan the means to make himself a Jamaican planterand to secure a knighthood, respectability and the governorship of the colony. Italso, like Drake’s similar exploits a hundred years before, made a deep impressionon the public imagination and reinforced that popular image of distant lands asplaces where quick fortunes were waiting for the energetic and ruthless.
-Lawrence James
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