Part I
Capitian Blood “service to the French, seafaring experience with the Dutch, Spanish prison” Monmouth’s rebellion The system of indentured slavery The concept of Spanish honor Port Royal Tortuga L’Olonais Maracaibo and Cartagena War: the French William and Mary They are cows, we are pigs Esquemeling Former slaves on pirate ships The Amerindians and the pirates Maracaibo and Cartagena (again) The rules of the Brotherhood of the Coast The Pirate Republic Literary Representations and Historical Reality
The Barbarossa brothers Polyglot Trade and privateering Fought the Knights Hospitalier, the Italians, and the Spanish Transported expulsed Muslims from Spain, Raided the coasts of Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands; captured cities in Algeria and Tunisia Ruler of Algiers; brought the Ottoman empire to North Africa (1517) where it remained for four centuries Barbarossa-Redbeard (Baba Aruj)
Inherited a rather large shipping and trading business; taxation of fishing Castles, marriages, children Abilities in battle proven during a castle siege “Taxed” cargo ships for safe passage; non-compliance meant violence and even murder Inspired admiration and loyalty in her followers In the public imagination: folk hero; national patriot of Ireland; “The Sea Queen of Connacht”; 16 th century Amazon; today - subject of a Broadway musical Grace O’Malley The O’Malley crest Images: Meeting with the Queen
Farming family of good stature Gifted seafarer Spanish treasure ships Slave trade Raids of Cadiz and Panama Circumnavigation Knighthood Vice admiral of the English fleet against the Armada Commissioned to “clean” the English Channel: seek and destroy remaining Spanish ships, and also pirate vessels Unsuccessful final campaigns Francis Drake
Several different people or one known by many names: Diego the Mulatto, Diego de los Reyes, Captain Diego Martín, Diego de la Cruz, Diego Díaz, Diego le Métis, Diego Lucifer It is more or less a consensus that Martín, de los Reyes, and Lucifer are all names of the same person Former slave from Havana Quick rise to captain of ship Sailed with Dutch pirates Likely received offence in Campeche Attack on Campeche, 1633 Gallantry Treatment of Isabel Maldonado, widow of the former governor of the Yucatán Treatment of Thomas Cage on his return to England Diego The Mulatto d according to Benerson Little Portrait by Diego Velázquez The sitter is Juan de Pareja, another painter and former slave
Son of a Welsh farmer; both uncles rose to prominence, one becoming Major-General, and the other, Lt-Governor of Jamaica Alexander Esquemeling accounts Puerto Principe campaign Porto Bello attack Raid on Cartagena Raid on Maracaibo and Gibraltar Capture of Panama and destruction of Panama City Arrested for violation of the 1670 peace treaty Knighted Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica, 1675 Suspended from the Jamaican Council Dies in retirement Henry Morgan d. 1688
His name as a joke Started off hunting logwood cutters under captain Felipe de la Barrera y Villegas, off the Gulf Coast of Mexico Partner in crime: Pedro de Costa Flagship: León Coronado Systematically attacked French and British buccaneers from Cuba (circa 1682); caused tension in the Caribbean Tortured and murdered captives Marooned with part of the crew after a storm, died of injuries and exposure. It is told that the survivors resorted to cannibalism Juan Corso d. 1685
Buccaneer Attacked numerous Spanish ships and towns Flagship: Trinity The book of maps taken From El Santo Rosario (1681) First Englishman to go around Cape Horn Accounts of his adventures published during his lifetime Full pardon from Charles II Died in prison and in debt Bartholomew Sharp
Likely from a wealthy family Participant in the War of Spanish Succession Flagship: Queen Anne’s Revenge Operations: Caribbean; Atlantic coast of the British colonies Blockade of Charleston, SC Royal pardon in NC Persecuted by the governor of Virginia The legend is more violent than the reality Edward Teach—Blackbeard Image: Miles Teves 1736 engraving Bath, NC