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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.
A pirate and slave trader active in the Caribbean and the Red Sea in the late 1690s. Robert Glover: d. 1698 1693–1698 Ireland / Colonial America An Irish-American pirate active in the Red Sea area in the late 1690s. Christopher Goffe? 1683–1691 Colonial America A pirate and privateer active in the Red Sea and the Caribbean. He was ...
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 ...
Pirate havens contributed to the creation and dissemination of pirate culture and mythology that have fascinated generations of people around the world. Pirate havens inspired stories, legends, songs, movies, books, games, and other forms of art and entertainment that depict the lives and adventures of pirates.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1670s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates ...
Laurens de Graaf, a Dutch pirate active in the Caribbean during the 1680s. Montauband, a French buccaneer active in the West Indies between 1675 and 1695. [10] Thomas Pound, an English pirate active in New England and the Atlantic during the late 1680s. [11] Andrew Ranson, an English buccaneer active in Spanish Florida during the early 1680s. [12]