![]() This article will explore the rise of piracy and their motivations to the lifestyle, Privateers, and the decline of pirates and illegal activities at sea. Literary fiction used first-hand accounts, as inspiration for creating the myths of pirates that contemporary society is aware of today. ![]() By the nineteenth century, pirates were rare, and first-hand verifiable accounts rarer still. (1) The Golden Age of Piracy lasted between the 1650s to around the 1720s, but acts of piracy date back centuries. Pirates are described by one historian as “very real, very dangerous, and very much loathed as common criminals” and were unquestionably “feared, hated, disgraced and deserving of their capital punishment” throughout the seventeenth century. ![]() The familiar but historically inaccurate image of a pirate is one of eye-patch-wearing and rum-drinking men who sailed the seas looking for treasures.
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