Alexandre Exquemelin

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (c. 1645 – c. 1707) was a French, or Dutch writer, known for authoring The History of the Buccaneers of America.

Biography
In 1666, Exquemelin was hired by the and went to Tortuga. There, he turned to piracy and became the of Henry Morgan, who gave him a gold razor stolen from a Spanish conquistador.

Being a, Exquemelin moved to the Netherlands upon returning from the Caribbean in order to avoid religious persecution. He would later author The History of the Buccaneers of America, a book on piracy based on his own observations, describing events such as Morgan's sacking of. Morgan himself had it censored and amended in order to preserve his own image.

Reference

 * ''Assassin's Creed: Pirates