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Blackbeard, Black Bart, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan. etc... All the big names of the Golden Age of Piracy seem to be British. Was Atlantic piracy in the late 18th/early 19th c. really overwhelmingly British, or has an Anglo-Americentric view of that period minimized pirates of other nations?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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