The 'Golden Age' of Piracy Explained: Privateers, Pirates and Blackbeard

With all due respect THANK YOU!!!! For this video... Yet so many facts that are unknown... From my research most pirates were at war with the colonial forces/the state and slave owners. Black Bart was actually a Black free man/navigator from Europe. Most history about pirates excludes slave ship rebellions. Its not a mutiny these slave /pirates have stole a colonizer's ship and without question are some of the bravest of all pirates. The freedom fighter "Pro Se" lawyer Sengbe Pieh (Cinque) of The Amistad uprising(1839) Stole the ship went to the supreme court WON and returned to Africa. The little George uprising of (1730) was well documented by the captain who speaks about the pirates/slave ingenuity...

The drake 👎's down part killed me

So my thoughts as i have stated before is the best ships where the one's that worked together ! Being lazy is probably what got some of them caught ie jack rackum etc ! I feel some of them had it figured out pretty good and worked great just like any team should. Unfortunately the navy eventually came around and that was the end of it as well as hunting down the rest

Is this a One Piece reference?

It’s actually hilarious how bafflingly stupid you are when it comes to art and its use

Horseshit they're hiding the booty and it will be found

Seems fitting that on a video of pirates, you use midjourney and steal from the artists. Though maybe don't act like it's a good thing.

Eye patches were because of the eye damage from staring at the sun for daylight navigation. Ruby lenses would filter the sun so sextants with these ruby or emerald filters were highly prized because you wouldn’t go blind using them. You would rotate out of being the navigator when you lost your sight so the next able seaman would become the navigator and the old navigator would get compensation for the loss for as long as you sailed. Being a navigator was a pay raise and a mark of advancement. Sailing with a bunch of one eyed men ensures you are on a very skilled ship. This make more money.

Pirates are Nothing But Cut Throat Goons that will do anything to get rich Quick

This guy looks like he is the offspring of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy.

Given the harsh conditions of life for the vast majority of people back then, the only thing that surprises me is that not even more folks became pirates. Doesn't much matter if you run the risk of death or serious injury while serving on a RN vessel for little pay or as member of a pirate crew where you'd get a fixed share of the profits and had a say in who should captain the ship. And while I think I have little illusions about the whole idea of the "romantic" life of pirates, I've always found it fascinating that there were people living in deeply authoritarian and generally repressive times who didn't dream about some sort of more egalitarian utopia but who actually established a system aboard their ships that was, in many ways, well ahead of its time. Doesn't matter to me that they probably came up with these rules mostly out of necessity and not because of some lofty, philanthropic ideals they held - I think it's more important and interesting that such systems actually existed at the time.

They aaaaaaaaare XD

Can't help feeling like at any moment this guy's gonna tell me that he does NOT look like Chicken Little

We have like 800k more viewers for another pirate movie 🎉

I find it disappointingly ironic that a history channel talking about piracy proudly proclaims its use of AI generated art, which pirates art from real artists. I cannot understate how disappointed I am about this. Even if it's hard to find historical artwork, it's no excuse to not support other content creators through commissions and the like. I want to like this channel, I really do, but using AI art seriously undercuts the channel's credibility.

Was capt Flint real?

Had to click of this, couldn't take one more minute of the commutator, poor choice.

Fun fact about the buccaneers! They originated as hunters and traders of mostly French origin in the Caribbean! They would hunt pigs, lizards and other animals on the islands, smoke the meat and sell it to passing ships to help them restock their provisions! This is where they’re earned the name “boucanier” or literally smoker in English! Anyways these men where crazy pirates! They formed communities on the small sloops and fishing boats they lived on and
Often banded togeather to take our large full masted ships! The buccaneer belief was that 8 muskets equaled 1 cannon and they where AMAZING marksmen to boot! The average shot/min of even an experienced infantryman from a great European power was about 3 shots/min the buccaneers used to grease the inside of their barells, hold their balls in their mouth, spit a ball into the rifle and smack the butt on the ground to drive it home! They perfected this and it gave them a fire rate of 8-10 shots a minute! Although it ruined the guns very quickly

Bro was ahead of his time with that drake joke

i prefer the historical drawings over ai slop that draws from all the flawed pirate myths and flawed media you debunked in *this video*. Using ai is cringe and lazy for a video like this.

"... the fate of Bonny remained unknown." Nonsense. Everyone knows she joined the Assassins!

Oh lord the inaccuracies in this... I'm sorry, it plays like someone who read a few articles and accepted it.

Wooden legs were common. Losing a leg on a ship was easy, and men with one were still good sailors. They'd just rarely be used in boarding a target vessel. Buccaneers were primarily french and land based, named buccaneers (from bouquanier) after a type of barbecuing. Corsairs are very distinct from buccaneers, sailing completely different oceans... And it does go on from there.

I love the style of video, the editing is great, the presentation is fun and awesome... It's just not particularly accurate 😅

This 12 year old explaining a well-established historical fact is depressing.

Anne Bonnie is a fictional character. She was created by an author known to be a liar. There is zero testimony of her existence anywhere other than the writings of one man.

There are fishing cultures in the netherlands that indeed wore earnings to pay for funerals

Dunno about Captain Kidd...the over-acting made feel like I was watching kids TV 🤨

Blackbeard stuck weed in his hair, not gunpowder

One Piece Fans researching on real pirates.🗣️

"One Piece Is REAL!!"

I'm watching this, listening, rather, while eating spicy egg ramen and trying to create a female pirate avatar on My phone! 🤔😁👍🏻

• Pirates: Independent criminals who attacked and plundered ships without any legal authority.
• Buccaneers: Primarily pirates who targeted Spanish shipping in the Caribbean during the early Golden Age of piracy; later, the term also referred to privateers.
• Privateers: Sailors given legal permission (via a “letter of marque”) by a government to attack enemy ships during wartime, effectively acting as state-sanctioned pirates.

The sound effects are a bit much, feel like im watching toddler tv

Turned off
Not 5 years old.

When it's convenient for empires piracy or privateering it's fine

I think pirates are freemen, Free from 🔺 laws
and free from formal standards of the sheep community let’s leave the stealing from poor people and focus on the mindset,the word pirate makes u feel like a toddler, but there mindset to today people they are like Native American & etc..or a famous people like 2 pac, unfortunately the videos of the golden age pirates talk more about treasures, clothes, blackbeard and errr, and leave the mindset and what did they experience to say they want to be pirate(freemen)& I’ll give u a quote from black beard before he dies it sound childesh but here’s the meaning(i hope to go straight to hell if I show u mercy or u show me one) go find the original quote.

Some pirates Did wear ererings .adopting native customs the same with tattoos..

The only description of blackbeard ..EVER was a tall sparce man with a black beard ..that's it ..a tall thin guy with a black beard ..and that is from a sorce that is questionable.. and even if accurate .. ( tall ) is subjective ..the average height of a man in the early 1700s was around 5'8 anything beyond that description is speculation..

Save private Ryan changed to save the ships captain.

How to disguise a woman as a girl.

Does ANYONE know how I can find the background music used in the introduction? It's not in the description.

Who else saw the connections between the famous pirates and one piece characters?

Your mum is a keyboard warrior… “bashing away”, I’m sure 😏

I've been researching my ancestry and have stumbled upon the US "Navy" - sanctioned privateering. I never knew this about our navy until I found a few privateer ancestors. I would love to see you do a documentary on the beginning of the US Navy. It's an interesting topic that isn't covered in US schools.

There is a record for mary reid in jamaica or anne bonnet

Please don't use AI, Id rather see a blank screen tbh. It's hurting the humanities, please don't contribute to it no matter how "easy" it is