How did it become such a romanticized caricature of history, loved as Halloween costumes, and Disney movies, when the reality was almost certainly bleak and very violent. Are there any other examples of history essentially getting the disney treatment en masse?
Caribbean Piracy
Asher Hughes
Camden Scott
Because a bunch of wacky rogues doung what they want not being held back by anything is exciting
Cameron Cook
>people with exotic clothes and tattoos show up at your shitty French port
>they have amazing food and booze and they're all partying and drunk and fighting all the time
>they bring with them valuable sugar and other crops that you'd sell your testicles for
>they tell everyone great stories about how they shanked motherfuckers who got in the way of their booty
>they sail away and leave you lonely and cold and deprived of their amazing goods so you fantasize about being a pirate and drinking rum all the time
Grayson Wright
That is without a doubt the cutest pirate I’ve ever seen
David Thompson
Why did it die out? You would think that Haitians would at least make attempts at it.
Noah Lopez
Because privateers were conflated into the piracy mythology, so you got the cutthroat brigands element mixed with the suave rogue of the seas (privateers were effectively seafaring mercs, middle or upper class men acting and dressing middle or upper class and getting treated at home as middle or upper class) making for a wholly irrealistic but very enticing end product.
Julian Smith
Because if they try to start that shit again they will always get BTFO,especially in american waters
Julian Hill
Monarchy.
In the 1920s people were still struggling against the hereditary oppressor, and by the 1950s we all had that idealized version of kings, princesses and nobles cavorting with happy village peasants. What the fuck happened?
Chase Cooper
To be more accurate, most of the pirate myths stems from the caribbeans, which were 90% anglo-french-dutch privateers preying on spanish colonies. The barbary pirates aren't romanticized, nor are chinese pirates, because by and large pirates are considered scum everywhere. It's literally just the privateers being improperly thrown in that cause caribbean piracy to be romanticized.
Hudson Gonzalez
Because the British navy grew big enough to completely stop piracy.
and
>blacks
>successful piracy