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Legendary pirate Capt William Kidd was the only one to actually bury looted treasure, was convicted and hanged. And yet some scholars claim he was never a pirate, only a legally licensed privateer and was unjustly smeared as a pirate and killed for political reasons. Whats the truth?

by /u/Bluest_waters in /r/AskHistorians

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