# Kennedy — A General History of the Pirates character guide

> Kennedy in A General History of the Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Captain Kennedy, Walter Kennedy

**First appearance:** 0013-ix-of-captain-bartho-roberts-and-his-crew

## Snapshot

A pirate officer under Bartholomew Roberts who later took his own command and his own share of the plunder.

## Who they are

Kennedy belongs to the crowded ranks of men who learned their trade under Roberts, the most prolific pirate of the age, and then struck out for themselves. His story sits within the book's larger argument that these were not romantic outlaws but robbers whose brief commonwealth might have become a nation had fortune favored them. He matters as one of the many lieutenants whose ambitions and quarrels show how pirate crews were held together — and how easily they came apart.

## In the story

### [IX: Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, and His Crew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_general_history_of_the_pirates_se/chapters/ix-of-captain-bartho-roberts-and-his-crew)

A bold but wicked pirate who led the attack on the Portuguese fort; later condemned by the crew.

### [Of Captain Anstis, and His Crew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_general_history_of_the_pirates_se/chapters/x-of-captain-anstis-and-his-crew)

One of the six original conspirators; later hanged at Execution Dock.

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