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Although his real name remains unknown, he began his pirate career as the first officer of Buccaneer-turned-pirate Captain Benjamin Hornigold of the Mary Anne. When a young crewman, Samuel Bellamy, called for a vote of no confidence in Hornigold for his refusal to attack English ships, the crew by a vote ousted Hornigold and Blackbeard, leaving ...
A General History of the Pirates (1724) by Captain Charles Johnson is the source of many biographies of well-known pirates, providing an extensive account of the period. [36] Johnson gives an almost mythical status to the more colorful characters such as the notorious English pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack .
August - Calico Jack Rackham steals John Ham's sloop William from the harbor of Nassau, Bahamas and leads a crew of pirates to sea, including Anne Bonny and Mary Read. September - Rackham and his pirates loot several fishing boats in the Bahamas. They then raid French Hispaniola for cattle and capture two sloops.
Pirate captains often absorbed captured slaves into their crews, and Black persons, both African and African American made up a substantial part of the pirate vanguard. [ 1 ] : 54 [ 19 ] : 169–170 The pirate's disruption of the transatlantic slave trade declined after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, which led to an increase in the trade ...
This is a timeline of the history of piracy.. Piracy in ancient history; Piracy in post-classical history; 1560s; 1570s; 1580s; 1590s; 1600s; 1610s; 1620s; 1630s ...
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1600s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1600 ... , join Jack Ward's crew. [16] 1606 ...
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1680s is a chronological list of key ... the crew reluctantly lets a French man-of-war escorting two Guinea ships ...
With his crew scattered, the pirate captain fled inland, where a local by the name of Juan Garay recognized and ambushed him allowing the authorities to capture him. Cofresí was considered the last Caribbean pirate to be successful. After he was executed on March 29, 1825, piracy declined in the region for good.