Gimme the Loot
Mueller, Gavin http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/gimme-the-loot/
Publisher: Jacobin Magazine
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Article
Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast.
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