To make a 400-page story short, Captain Kidd was not a pirate but a privateer who was dealt the worst fate possible. For the most part he executed his commission from the king and other high-ranking backers honorably, but the legal apparatus of the British Admiralty - for whatever reasons - had him hanged from the start. Given everything wrong with that system, we now know that he would have been better off going into hiding with his wife and child.
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