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Philip Levy argues that the Whydah exhibit would have provided opportunity to explore connections between Atlantic pirates and slavery. The actions of Atlantic pirates, who often attacked slave ships and forts, created a crisis in the transatlantic slave trade. These actions were so detrimental that they led European authorities on both sides ...
Most pirates in this era were of Welsh, English, Dutch, Irish, and French origin. Many pirates came from poorer urban areas in search of a way to make money and of reprieve. London in particular was known for high unemployment, crowding, and poverty which drove people to piracy. Piracy also offered power and quick riches. [citation needed]
Articles relating to Piracy in the Atlantic World. Piracy was a phenomenon that was not limited to the Caribbean region. Golden Age pirates roamed off the coast of Eastern North America, Africa and the Caribbean.
Bernard Bailyn argues that the Atlantic is the “story of a world in motion.” [3]: 61 Pirates were part of this motion; they lived, operated and died as part of the Atlantic world. Defying traditional alliances, attacking and capturing merchant vessels of all nations, pirates wreaked havoc on an emerging economic system, disrupted trade ...
Bartholomew Roberts (17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who was, measured by vessels captured, the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. [2]
The Pirate Round was a sailing route followed by certain, mainly English, pirates, during the late 17th century and early 18th century. The course led from the western Atlantic, parallel to the Cape Route around the southern tip of Africa, stopping at Madagascar, then on to targets such as the coast of Yemen and India. The Pirate Round was ...
February – An act is passed by the House of Assembly of Jamaica (An Act For the Restraining and Punishing Privateers and Pirates. ) prohibiting trade with pirates. March – Pirate hunter Thomas Pain , allegedly commissioned by Jamaican Governor Thomas Lynch , leads a group of privateers in a raid against St. Augustine, Florida however they ...
He was one of the first pirates to be hunted down by Commodore David Porter and the Mosquito Fleet during the early 1820s. Charles Gibbs: 1798–1831 1816–1831 United States One of the last pirates active in the Caribbean, and one of the last people executed for piracy by the United States. [55] "Don" Pedro Gilbert: 1800–1834 1832–1834 ...