The concept of “ modernity” is a vague notion that some correlate with the founding of the New World. : 9 They were ready and willing participants in the exchange of people, ideas, and commodities around the Atlantic basin affecting the creation and destruction of communities.

Defying traditional alliances, attacking and capturing merchant vessels of all nations, pirates wreaked havoc on an emerging economic system, disrupted trade routes and created a crisis within an increasingly important system of trade centered on the Atlantic world. Bernard Bailyn argues that the Atlantic is the “story of a world in motion.” : 61 Pirates were part of this motion they lived, operated and died as part of the Atlantic world. : 3 By broadening the scope of understanding away from land based communities and geo-political borders, pirates and sailors become an important part of understanding and conceptualizing how the Atlantic world looked. 1.6.7 The Whydah Galley: Slave Ship to Pirate Shipġ814 Thomson Map of the Atlantic Ocean - Geographicus - Atlantic-t-1814Ītlantic history is a method of analysis constructed by historians as a means for understanding the development of inter-continental relationships in the early modern period.1.6.4 Sources of information about Pirates.1.4.6 Government and Shipboard Relations.1.4.4 Hosti Humani Generis or “Enemies of all Mankind”.1.2.6.1 History of geographic ties leading up to Golden Age piracy:.

1.1.1 Pirates, Buccaneers, and Privateers.

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