“For all its wickedness, however, Port Royal seemed to tolerate everyone. Quakers, Catholics, atheists, Jews – all were free to worship and believe as they pleased, and they lived peacefully alongside one another as Port Royal became the richest town in the New World. Pirates and buccaneers continued to arrive, welcomed by a public that understood the wellspring of its good fortune, and who ate, drank, and lived among these fast-living men.”
