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Pirates
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Who Were Pirates?• Scum of society,
today’s gangsters• Originally honest
sailors, pirating more $ and excitement
• Pirates who attacked ships often gave crews a choice of death, stranding, or join them
• Some pirates were privateers– cheap navy for countries
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Pirate Ships
• Most were stolen, few built to be pirate ships• Decks leveled for fighting, more cannons• Fast with skilled crews• Famous ones: Sudden Death, Flying Dragon,
Fortune, Sea King, Flying Dutchman
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Life as a Pirate• Captain often elected by crew, often
re-elected due to intimidation, always risk of mutiny
• Captain had own cabin, crew slept on deck or below
• Life could be exciting at times, mostly hard and uncomfortable
• Quartermaster– in charge of all stolen goods, supplies, rum
• Sailing master- in charge of navigation
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• Discipline with a whip, arguments decided by 1st blood
• Why eye patches?• Walking plank didn’t happen, often
marooned or just tossed into ocean• Flags used to frighten and deceive,
pirates avoided fights if possible
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Famous Pirates• Blackbeard– Edward Teach, sailed
from the Carolinas to Florida, home on Ocracroke
• 6’6, muscular, long black beard with incense, dreadlocks, tan, married 14 times
• Ship was the Queen Anne’s Revenge
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• 2 straps across chest, 6 pistols and 6 daggers
• Beat up crew, games to intimidate
• Wounded 25 times, head cut off, legend says his body swam around boat 7 times
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• Anne Bonny and Mary Read– female pirates, dressed like men
• Calico Jack– colorful colors, love triangle
• Henry Morgan– Caribbean, army of pirates
• Bartholomew Roberts- Black Bart, didn’t drink, prayer, plundered 400 ships
• Stede Bonnett- rich before, bored with life, incompetent pirate