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True Caribbean Pirates – Heroes for Justice and Democracy
True Caribbean Pirates – Heroes for Justice and Democracy
by Cherie Pugh
Cherie Pugh discovered the true history of pirates from Nassau, while sailing the Caribbean in a traditional wooden ship. She found the records of his trial in London, and spent years researching and writing his novel
"Mary Read – Sailor, Soldier, "Pirate.
This pirate yarn end is now available as an ebook or a draft href = "> www.womanpirate.com" http://www.womanpirate.com/
The real pirates Caribbean British sailors were more desperate, abandoned by the government after they fought and defeated Queen Anne's War. From 1702-1713, England, Holland and Germany challenged the power of Catholic France, in a terrible war fought in Flanders and Spain. This war, waged nominally on the throne of Spain, raised in England for a super power, won his entry to the immensely lucrative trade in slaves, and ended the centuries-old dominance of France. However, England had did not need more than the skeleton crew to sail their ships back, and his well-trained sailors were asking for bread in all its scattered colonies. Other European powers also abandoned soldiers and sailors, and there were many Dutch, French and Spanish, who had abandoned their posts, and now without a home.
Many of the sailors trapped in the Caribbean have been forced to cut logwood in the jungles, the desperate life uniting them in tight-knit brotherhoods, sworn to protect each other by malaria, starvation and Indian attack. When the captain of a ship trading Company tried to cheat Charles Vane, Vane killed, and commanded the vessel. And throughout the Caribbean, the brothers followed suit, and returned to sea as pirates.
At the same time, a huge fleet sailed from Cartagena on the Spanish Main, carrying the stripped treasure of South America during the war years. Now that peace had been declared, the Spaniards decided to take the huge risk of staying home. However, they had barely set off when a terrible storm smashed into them, leaving bodies and gold garbage on the beaches of Florida.
The pirates heard about the treasure when the captain Henry Jennings saved a drowning sailor Spanish. When the gallant Welsh refused to release it back into the sea, despite the murmurs of his team, the Spaniard revealed grateful the fate of the treasure fleet. Jennings then joined the pirates and took them in an overwhelming attack on the camp to rescue Spanish. They sailed out, along with a fortune.
Jennings then led the former base Captain Mission Pirate – the port of Nassau, on Providence Island, Bahamas. Because of the trade winds, the Bahamas stand directly in line to sail from Europe to the New World colonies, and all merchant ships that have run the gauntlet pirate. Nassau harbor, with its reefs and shoals and extreme tides was also very dangerous for a large square rigged ship of the Navy to enter.
Asked by Jennings, Pirates united under the symbol Captain Mission, who insisted in honor of the brothers of the sea. The pirates said they were true gentlemen, and the well-born were just a bunch of wolves who gorged on the helpless and weaknesses. Mostly the poor sailors had been kidnapped by their own government, which required hundreds of men for each vessel in its navy, but never get to feed them properly due to corruption of the commanders of the Navy, killed thousands of his own men each year, often more than were ever killed in battle.
It is in contempt for the cultural life of the common man or woman, who developed the pirates. These men came from Britain 80% of those living in extreme poverty and inequity, and all victims of injustice, chose not to tolerate or perpetuate it. If they captured a ship commanded by a tyrant, the crackers would encourage the crew to 'Please' to him, before dropping him on his boat, ship, ship to keep his team to share. For them, this was justice. Pirates also released the slave ships captured, because he hated slavery as much as any Quaker.
Pirates of the Caribbean lived by strict rules, chosen by themselves, and clearly expressed in the articles of your company. Marcus Rediker, in "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – The Story of Anglo-American maritime …" examines six survivors sets of signed articles, which all insist on one man, one vote. Its officials were openly elected, and could be challenged by any of the crew. The role the superintendent has to uphold the rights of the crew against the captain, who could only give orders, when they were "chasing or being chased." Everyone had an equal share in the service, except the captains and quartermasters, who had a part and a half.
Expelled any man who stole the company even for the value of a piece of eight; anyone who took a blaze below deck near the gunpowder, any woman who raped a "prudent found aboard a premium, boy or purchased or bawd on board for fun.
I found the records of two women on board ships, pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and they are the exceptions that prove the rule. Mary Read masqueraded as a man for most of his life, including his time with Captain Jack Rackham. Anne stole two sloops for the crew Rackham, wearing pants when attacking, and despite living openly as a woman pirate, and his wife Rackham, was clearly good for business. Even so, it is likely that the two women have contributed to the fall of Rackham.
[For more information about these fascinating women, see my article comes
"Anne Bonny and Mary Read - Women Pirates of the Caribbean"]
As a sworn oath not required to shed the blood of one another, the pirates abandoned any who broke their own rules. A man could be the "prince of an island that was nothing more than a full sand in a sea of blindness. Without water, food or shade, he would die in agony within three days. Or it can be left on a green island, with everything you needed, and the probability of falling into another vessel for water.
Perhaps the enduring success of the pirates of Nassau was the introduction of bird-wing sail for Europe. John Haman built fast ships of the pirates in small Harbour Island, basing his designs on the sloops of Malacca pirates, "quick to attack, faster to execute. Pirates sailed easily beat the squares Navy ships and their agile sloops could easily negotiate the dangerous shoals and reefs of the Caribbean Information in very light breeze. It was not until the Navy adopted these sloops, which threatened the pirates at all.
[For more information on Nassau, see my next article
"Pirate - Nassau Haven in] Caribbean
By 1715, the fleets Pirates of small, fast sailboats dominated trade between England, Africa and the Caribbean. They remained well armed, making your own powder and grenades, and stealing all the weapons large and small companies in need. Sailing to a merchant ship, the King of Death flying from the mast, drums and trumpets blaring, the sloops crowded with hundreds of armed men with blackened faces and curse the devil, and promising mercy only on immediate delivery, they must have looked really scary. The small, underpaid, hungry crew actually deliver immediately, knowing the reputation of pirates to the fairness of the common sailor, whose chests that never rang.
When the holds full, pirates openly sold their stolen goods at an auction on the docks of the corrupt colonial governors, who did not like to buy expensive products highly taxed in Europe.
At its peak, the brothers of the Sea was a close-knit organization of thousands of well-trained sailors, in companies of hundreds of men, large fleets of sailboats fast. Openly dedicated to the ethics of justice and democracy, who committed a large amount of theft, murder, but little. That were vilified as psychopaths is an injustice going on.
[For more information about the British government slaughter of those pirates,
see my article is "The End of Pirates of the Caribbean"]
The final yarn pirate is now available as an ebook or paperback
About the Author
While sailing in the Caribbean I re-discovered the story of the Englishwoman, Mary Read, who lived as a man and ended a pirate; and her young American friend, Anne Bonny, who lived openly as a woman rover.
I found their Court Records at the Public Records Office in Kew, “The Trials of Captain Jack Rackam and Other Pirates”, by Robert Baldwin, 1721, as well as all the Colonial records on the pirate settlement of Nassau.
Re-creating the life of Mary Read has been a labour of love, as well as the work of half a lifetime. Learning about the real pirates of the Caribbean made it worth it.
If you want to read “Mary Read: Sailor, Soldier, Pirate”, go to www.womanpirate.com
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