Download or read book Captain Blood Annotated and Illustrated Edition written by Rafael Sabatini and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabatini was a proponent of basing historical fiction as closely as possible on history. Although Blood is a fictional character, much of the historical background of the novel is loosely based on fact.[1] A group of Monmouth rebels was indeed condemned to ten years' hard labor in Barbados, though not chattel slavery as described in the book;[2] and the shifting political alliances of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 are used in the novel as a plot device to allow Blood's return to respectability.