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Pirate havens are ports or harbors that are a safe place for pirates to repair their vessels, resupply, recruit, spend their plunder, avoid capture, and/or lie in wait for merchant ships to pass by. The areas have governments that are unable or unwilling to enforce maritime laws .
Piracy flourished in the Caribbean because of the existence of pirate seaports such as Port Royal in Jamaica, [1] Tortuga in Haiti, and Nassau in the Bahamas. [2] Piracy in the Caribbean was part of a larger historical phenomenon of piracy , as it existed close to major trade and exploration routes in almost all the five oceans .
Port Royal is attacked by the crew of the Black Pearl after Elizabeth accidentally summons the pirates. Pintel and Ragetti kidnap Elizabeth from her mansion, which is located in the town. Jack is imprisoned in the jail there, but Will Turner helps him escape. In Dead Man's Chest, Cutler Beckett uses Port Royal as his base of operations.
The communities of pirates were willing to join forces "at sea and in port, even when the various crews were strangers to each other." [ 1 ] : 43, 17, 94 The positive communal atmosphere aboard ship created a home-like situation where there were limited social and physical boundaries within the group.
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]
An 1849 map of Arabia denoting the Pirate Coast. Shortly after the map was created, The Pirate Coast was renamed The Trucial Coast (present-day United Arab Emirates). The designation Pirate Coast was first used by the British around the 17th century and acquired its name from the raiding activities that the local Arab inhabitants pursued. [18]
Detail of a 17th-century map showing Campeche and its fortifications. The Sack of Campeche, known to later Spanish historians as Mansfield's Assault, was a 1663 raid by pirates led by Christopher Myngs and Edward Mansvelt which became a model for later coastal pirate raids of the buccaneering era.
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681 Barbaria by Jan Janssonius, shows the coast of North Africa, an area known in the 17th century as Barbaria, c. 1650 An Algerine pirate ship A man from the Barbary states A Barbary pirate, Pier Francesco Mola, 1650