Women Pirates in a Masculine World
Women pirates were more common than we might think. This week’s reading in Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts focuses on two of the most famous – Anne Bonny and […]
Women pirates were more common than we might think. This week’s reading in Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts focuses on two of the most famous – Anne Bonny and […]
Move over Johnny Depp –“Black Sails” has taken over the pirate imaginary on cable TV! The question is whether or not this newest representation of the Golden Age of Piracy […]
Pirates are popular everywhere – even in China. The Caribbean Association in China (CAC) held a party with over 200 attendees at Pudong’s Crowne Plaza hotel to celebrate another anniversary […]
Piracy in the Caribbean declined after 1750, but did not disappear. One pirate in particular, Roberto Cofresí (June 17, 1791 – March 29, 1825), better known as “El Pirata Cofresí“, operated […]
Who were the three most important people onboard a 17th century pirate ship? The ship’s captain; the ship’s carpenter; and –the ship’s barber-surgeon! All three usually received equal shares of […]
Pirates may seem to be a hodgepodge of misfits with little organization, but underneath the chaos of pirating is a well-defined culture with its own version of order . […]