The Golden Age of Piracy: A Complete History

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It is said that piracy has been since men first travelled by water. It has existed across the world and time, but to most people, "pirate" has come to mean the colonial pirates and privateers active during the so-called Golden Age of Piracy. You know, black flags, flintlock pistols, cutlasses, that sort of thing - not falchions or samurai armor.

Some define the period rather nichély as ocurring between 1715 and 1725, being the heyday of legends like Blackbeard - others pull it further back to somewhere in the mid 1600s and late 1720s, involving figures like Henry Morgan and Henry Every. The scope of this video will be limited to this latter period. Preferably, the pirates of this era would have a unique name to separate them from other historical pirates, and as we'll discover, they did have several names to distinguish them - they just aren't very well known.

Further reading:
Pillaging the Empire - Chris Lane
Pirate Nests and the rise of the British Empire - Mark G. Hanna
Buccaneers and soldiers of the Americas - René Chartrand
The Pirate Wars - Peter Earle

Music:
0:15 Sacred Pavanne by Jon Sayles at http://jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm
3:31 Cay Phas by Jon Sayles at http://jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm
13:49 Riu, Riu, Chiu by Jon Sayles at http://jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm
2:39 Medieval War Drums https://youtu.be/G24_1FbBrbg?si=gyaqgAAqRMqO8XJV
6:39 Jaw harp by Kragatar: https://youtu.be/7Nc_LotIr5M?si=XhEr4zTgrQSABKy9
10:43 Tielman Susato Fanfare Dansereye 1551 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5H5KAtfwHE
20:22 The Serpent by Forgotten chefs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4jQTre1jYs
24:13 Purcell Abdelazer Rondeau: https://youtu.be/Y1CpzSORmEY?si=DcDvPwtMm3grcEL0
27:51 SK Royalist Army Drum Calls by Blake Sporne: https://youtu.be/njMKkbtfn1k?si=iWI1-nskuubdFaZZ
32:58 Hurdy-Gurdy recorded on my phone during the Gotland Medieval Market 2023
37:50 Graupner - Suite for 3 Chalumeaux GWV 443: https://youtu.be/qoImnP9PlrE?si=6H2ykzU_DDq9PLeb

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:39 What happened before?
6:39 Tortuga and the boucaniers
10:43 Port Royal and the buccaneers
13:49 Petit-Goâve and the filibusters
20:22 New York, Madagascar and the Red Sea Men
24:13 St. Malo and Bristol, Privateers and Corsairs
27:51 Nassau and the Flying Gang Marooners
32:58 Madagascar revived? The Marooners continued
35:40 Conclusions
37:50 What happened next?
41:05 Outro

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