Pirate Project On Sir John Hawkins

The document “Buying Slaves in 1693” portrays how the process of purchasing and transporting the slaves from the African coastline to the the English ship Hannibal. The document is a section in Captain Thomas Phillips journal dating May 21, 1693. This small section of text shows historically how you would go about purchasing slaves, and it also describes the compounds the slaves were held in. The description lays out a step by step process and side comments on what the captain has learn throughout his career. This text also demonstrates how two different cultures and societies interacted together through a form of trade.

Then Herrings continue with a second chapter from 1789 - 1801 a short period but it was titled "None who can make us afraid" but some of the most importance during this period was about the Barbarian Parates most of these pirates were from North Africa states as Algiers, Morocco, and Tripoli and Tunis they were demanding tribute, plundering ships even ensalving foreign salilors, but where would we stand here as a British Colony we had protection, but after the revolution war we were in our own so now it was more easily to get attacked by pirates so first the U.S. decided to paid the pirates monthly for them not to attacked, so when we were by our selves we could not make no economy we were just surving by trading so we had to make as deal we had to work with Foreign

Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who escaped to freedom in a ship and eventually became a sea captain, businessman, and politician.

Captain John Smith was an explorer from England, a solider and a colonial governor. John’s teenage years were rough to say the least. At sixteen years of age, his father passed away tragically. He joined volunteers in fighting for independence from Spain. While fighting for Hungary he was promoted to captain, but in 1602 was captured and sold as a slave. He escaped and fled, then proceeded to travel at several different places until he went back to England.

In the novel, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, authors Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger wanted to bring to the attention of the public of a war that is often forgotten in American history. The Barbary Wars took place between 1808-1805, and were an incredibly influential series of events that led to the creation and modification of the U.S. Navy and related branches, including the U.S. Marines. The tensions that led to the war began as early as the year 1782, when Thomas Jefferson noted the severity of the growing problem in the northern coast of Africa when discussing the safety of his last remaining daughter who was to travel to meet him in France. At the time, the United States was experiencing

He mostly went around taking over and capturing ships to make deals with others. Teach wouldn't go around stealing gold, then hide it on a remote island. One of the things he was actually involved in was the Charleston Blockade. There he, along with some other pirates, blockaded the harbor. There were many ships that wanted to leave, and the pirates attacked all of them. Any ship wanting exist or entry in that area was not allowed to get their wish. During this time Blackbeard took some crew members and held them as prisoners. He would have a landing party, and again trade them for medical supplies to treat his crew. Ones who didn't listen were seized for ransom. Edward Teach was also a part of the Spanish Succession from 1701 to to 1713. During this time he would rob ships in the New Providence area. He captured ships containing cargo of flour, wine, and gold. When he was done with the Spanish Succession he went a few years with assorted options, and then he became the monstrous, devilish, pirate captain Blackbeard it known to

The Golden Age of Piracy Blackbeard, otherwise known as Edward Teach, was an English pirate around the early 18th century. He ransacked ships with his crew off the eastern coast of North Carolina from the summer of 1717 to November 1718. North Carolina was almost a sanctuary for pirates and other unfavorable people, and it had a coastline advantageous to the pirating of ships. Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, was possibly discovered recently in 2008, which provides much information on how he operated. Blackbeard turned to piracy in 1716, following in the footsteps of the pirate Benjamin Hornigold.

“After the 1890 season, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys signed several players from rival American Association teams- including the Philadelphia Athletics star second baseman Lou Bierbauer. The Philadelphia team loudly protested the move, complaining to league officials that the Alleghenys’ actions were “piratical.” The Alleghenys made sport of being denounced for being “piratical” by renaming themselves the Pirates for the 1891 season.” Pirates have had a strong presence throughout the ages; their presence has often garnered acknowledgment from governments- both foreign and domestic. For the most part, pirates are more real than ninjas based upon their presence and the acknowledgment of their existence by governments throughout history.

Slave trading was a business and “over the four centuries of Atlantic slavery, millions of Africans and their descendants were turned into profits.” (Johnson) The Atlantic trade was highly depended on by slave owners as the life expectancy of a slave working in the sugar cane plantations was about seven years in the Caribbean. Due to the use of slave labor by the 18th century surplus capital was being invested in European industry.

From a jurisdictional standpoint, the most egregious error on the part of the court was the prosecutions failure to charge the defendants with piracy in the indictment. Since the commissioners established the court, and drew their authority to try the accused, from the Piracy Act of 1700, this oversight threw the legitimacy of the entire proceedings into question. The fact that the men standing before them were pirates seemed so certain to the commissioners, they did not bother to charge them with the crime. But failing to charge them with piracy prohibited them from deriving their authority from the commissions established under the William III statute which was exclusive in nature. The court had no jurisdiction to try anyone for any crime, a fact that became apparent to them at some point during the month long individual hearings. On April 19th, following the conclusion of two trials, and 165 separated investigatory sessions, the court charged John Jessop with “Piracy and Robbery upon the High Seas.” Jessop had already been found guilty of unlawful resistance and attack of an HMS vessel

Slavery was a driving force of the sugar trade because the profits from selling slaves had driven sellers to sell more. Also, the The increase of sold slaves produced more sugar, thus expanding the sugar trade. Documents 9 and 11 deal with the market of slaves, while Document 10 compares slave population to sugar production. According to David Richardson, after purchasing slaves off the West African coast, selling them to British Caribbean would give sellers very high profit. In fact, in 1748, a seller’s profit would be about £18 per slave sold. In 1768, however, both purchase price and selling price of a slave had increased; yet remarkably a seller’s profit reached £25 per slave sold (Doc. 9). Sellers such as grocers and tailors and other commoners were able to take part in this trade by buying a share of a venture (Doc. 9). Craftsmen involved in the trade did not use money to trade slaves. African slaves were traded with material goods such as bullets, tobacco-pipes, brass pans, and copper bars (Doc. 11). The economic growth from the slave trade had produced both money and slaves, which increased sugar production. The massive amounts of slaves working had produced tons of sugar from a plantation. Although working in deplorable conditions, the “free” labor from the slaves had produced extremely high yields (Doc. 8). For

During the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries, piracy was rampant in the Atlantic, specifically in the West Indies. Piracy has existed since the earliest days of ocean travel, for a range of personal and economic reasons. However, one of the major reasons why piracy was wide spread and rampant in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries was Great Britain’s endorsement and usage of piracy as an asset; in wars fought in the New World. Great Britain with its expanding power and conflicts with other nations would make piracy a lifestyle and lay down the foundation for the Golden Age of Piracy and eventually bring what it created to a screeching halt.

Piracy in Somalia has come about due to years of internal fighting and weakened government. With the overthrow of the president in 1991, Somalia has been a complete anarchy with only the laws of rival clans who have been in power. Though long before that the country has been in constant war between the people of the country because money and food have been always been scarce. Small amounts of money have been made through some exports but the real money came from the fishing off the coast. Recently because of the lack of laws commercial fisherman from all over the world have been over-fishing the waters and leaving the Somalis with too few fish to survive. European companies have used this lack of laws as a way to easily dump their

The slave trade was the largest contributor to the British economy during the 18th century. Tomas Butler stated “The profits from the slave trade were part of the bedrock of our country's industrial development. Many people and institutions in every part of the country were complicit in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.” In the early Americas, Britain supplied a vast majority of the slaves to the new world to be sold to the highest bidder. During the slave trade British ships made over ten thousand voyages and enslaved approximately 3.4 billion Africans. Some of these ships would make a profit of twenty to fifty percent. Back in England the king and the ship owners were not the only people benefiting from the slave trade. Everyone from the factory owners to the factory workers were benefited as an effect of the slave trade. The upper-class citizens were definitely making the big dollars. These people included the owners of the slave ships, the factory owners, who were able to produce and sell the products that the Africans and Americans needed and wanted, bankers who made money from the interest they earned on loans from people who borrowed money for the long voyage, and

Beginning in 1419, Prince Henry of Portugal, also known as “The Navigator”, began financing sailors, mapmakers, and shipbuilders that were devoted to finding new lands. These men were from different nationalities, ranging from Italy, Arabia, and Germany. Their primary focus was to sail around Africa, and land in India. Although at first they failed to go to India, they were successful in sailing down the west African coast, which was the beginning for one of the worse trades in the history of mankind, which is slavery. In 1444, the first 200 slaves from Africa were shipped to Portugal. Later, in 1488, Portuguese captain Bartholemeu Dias sailed around Africa, passing by the Cape of Good Hope. One decade later, Vasco de Gama went farther than Dias and came back to Portugal loaded with spices from the East. Then the Spanish came along. Unlike Portugal, that based its empire off of naval capabilities, the Spanish based theirs off conquest and colonization. There were many Spanish conquistadors, but the most famous of them all is Christopher