A Brief History of Port Royal, Jamaica: The Wickedest City on Earth

Kingston Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in the world, and the story that unfolded along its shores reads like a fever dream of empire, piracy, disaster, and reinvention. Port Royal, sitting at the tip of the Palisadoes -- the narrow sand spit that shelters the harbour -- was once the richest and most notorious city in the Western Hemisphere. Today, it is a quiet fishing village where the ghosts of buccaneers share space with fishermen mending nets in the morning sun. The...