HIST1083 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Buccaneer, Indentured Servant, Atlantic World
10.27.16 Piracy in the Atlantic World
NO class Tuesday but watch the video he posts on Canvas→will be on next quiz
• Piracy developed in the shadows of global wrestling to gain profit
o May pirates were’t outlaws→some were subcontracted to do deeds against rival
empire to hurt their trade
• Port Royal: 17th Century Buccaneer Grand Central
o Piracy capital is Port Royal
o Caribbean Heartland
o Privateering→letter of mark/permission to go on a mission to do something illegal/dirty
work
o Letter of mark
o Golden era followed by decline
o Brtiish take over Jamica in 1655
▪ Launched for piracy against Spain
o Constant wars between Spain and England
▪ Becoming global fights
▪ Piracy against Spanish ships was okay by Britain
o Piracy thrived where there is little enforcement and high incentive to profit
• Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)
o English sailor intitially
o One of the original privateers
o Gets captured by Spain smuggling→gets pissed when he returns to England and focuses
on crushing Spain via Panama→takes gold from Spain when they cross the ismis of
Panama
o Here to English
o Villain to Spanish
• Admiral Drake
o 1568 first battle with Spanish
o Sailed around Cape Horde
o El Draque to Spain, Sir Francis
o Circumnavigated world (1577-1580)
o 1596 dies in Panama of dissentry
o Stole millions in gold, nonstop attle of takig people’s gold ad attlig the
▪ To bring back to England
o Captures Capa Fuego→about $20 million today
o Knighted by English
• Captain Henry Morgan (1635-1688)
o Starts his career as indentured servant in Barbados→does’t oe fro wealth
▪ Like Drake, making a name for himself
o English buccaneer in Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica
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