Pirates and Slavery: The Unromantic Reality

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This video might be my most important one so far, as we delve into the critically overlooked involvement which pirates had in the slave trade. Contrary to popular belief, pirates weren't egalitarian, abolitionist, or revolutionary. They didn't deliberately seek out slave ships to liberate the slaves chained aboard. For a slave aboard a Guineaman, the worst possible fate, was to be captured by pirates.

Sources:
Black People under the Black Flag - Arne Bialuschewski
Piratical Schemes and Contracts - E.T Fox
The Slave Ship - Marcus Rediker
The Many-Headed Hydra - Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
The Buccaneer's Realm - Benerson Little
The Golden Age of Piracy - Benerson Little
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - John Franklin Jameson
A Cruising Voyage Round the World - Woodes Rogers
A New Voyage Around the World - William Dampier
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal...

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
03:20 Attitudes towards slavery
07:50 Buccaneers and slavery
10:43 How pirates treated slaves
15:46 End of the pirate slave trade
20:47 Recruitment


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