Pirates have long occupied a strange place in popular imagination, part brutal criminal, part folk hero. Their...
Pirates
The Golden Age of Piracy, spanning roughly from the 1650s to the 1730s, was marked by a surge in maritime raiding across the Atlantic and the Caribbean. This period saw the rise of infamous figures such as Edward Teach, Henry Every and Bartholomew Roberts, operating at a time when empires were expanding and naval power was in flux. Pirates targeted merchant shipping routes, often exploiting colonial rivalries and weak enforcement. While romanticised in later fiction, piracy in this era was brutal, opportunistic and shaped by the politics and economics of empire, trade and war. It left a complex and lasting historical legacy.
Christopher Condent, also known by the nickname “Billy One-Hand,” was one of the more enigmatic figures of...
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Bartholomew Roberts, better known as Black Bart, was arguably the most successful pirate of the Golden Age...
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Sir Henry Morgan remains one of the most infamous and controversial figures of the Golden Age of...