Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan... It seems all the big names of the Golden Age of Piracy are British. Was Atlantic piracy in the late 18th/early 19th c. really overwhelmingly British, or has an Anglo-Americentric view of history obscured the participation of pirates from other nations?
by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians
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