A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known.

Pirates were everywhere. But they were not who we thought they were. They were not anarchistic, antisocial maniacs. At least not in the seventeenth century. Many were welcome in colonial communities. They married local women, and bought land and livestock. Pirate James Brown even married the daughter of the governor of Pennsylvania and was appointed to the Pennsylvania House of Assembly. Pirates, it seemed, could be civil, neighborly, and law-abiding. Why hadn’t this been noticed before? By Mark G. Hanna.
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