No âmbito do projeto "Take a Minute, Take Five", subcategoria "Did you know? Now you know", publicamos hoje um curiosidade histórica sobre os piratas, da autoria de Vitor Gonçalves, 9ºF.
Did you know? Now you know! - Historical Fact: Flying Gang (a pirate Republic)
During the 18th century, more specifically in the year 1706, the English privateers were tired of the English government treating them like garbage, so they turned to a life of crime, turning into pirates as an act of saying "well, if you're not going to pay me then I'll just do everything illegaly, then.". At some point, the pirates decided to take an unhabited island, Nassau, in the Bahamas, where there was little governmental and colonial control, in which they formed a "Republic of Pirates" , where they would lived until 1718.
They had their own elections, rules and even shared loot with each other that they plundered off of Spanish commercial ships. (Of course they didnt just plunder Spanish ships
they would also plunder ships from other countries. They didnt discriminate ...)
This is also where the infamous pirate Edward Teach came from, later known as the menacing and dreadful Blackbeard! Guess pirates were still bad... but they would only kill or enslave people if they didn't surrender their ship.
As a response to all the piracy, Britain hired Woodes Rogers, who offered Royal pardons to pirates who surrendered themselves to him and those who didn't accept this proposal were normally hunted or executed by him.
Within a few years, the pirate "Republic" was effectively destroyed, ending the wrath of the pirate republic, or Flying Gang.
Vitor Gonçalves, 9F
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