The Truth About Pirates

Pirates used various ways to torture victims of crime . most of the ways that were used upon pirate ship were extremely true and violent. Being a pirate meant there were numerous ways you could find your self in the position where you were being punished. If your stole or did not follow the orders of the ship given out by the captain of the ship you could find your self in a lot of trouble which ended with being punched in a very cruel way. as mentioned in the pirates code of conduct, no boy or women was allowed on the ship and if they were t find one on board they would been killed. if you leaved at a time of war when you are found you will be marooned. All of the previous offenses could get your nose and ears slit and be left on the next land that was reached on the ship. You could be put to death. keel hauling was a well known torture device that is when they tie you to ropes that go under the boat and pull each of the ropes one at a time making you scrape against the bottom of

March 11, 2020 Today is the day I will be traveling back to the golden age of piracy. In the early 1700's there  were thousands of pirates which is why It is referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy. I am  going back to meet Anne Bonny, a female  pirate who took on the life of being a male to  make a life for herself at a time where men  made all the decisions. We have just arrived in the Golden Age of  Piracy and now our mission is to find Anne  Bonny and  get on her ship. She became part of her husband, Calico jack's, ship. Once we found the ship in  the  harbor we snuck on board. We were just in luck they were about to sail away and were having a crew meeting togo over the plan.We stood in with the other crew members not really listening to the captain and what he had to say. We were much too busy trying to spot Anne Bonny out in the crowd.  Once we found her we waiting until they meeting was finished and  as everyone was going to start  preparing their

Henry Morgan was a Buc anneer who was not shy about plundering and pillaging to make a profit. after many successful raids he was a very wealthy man who bought a plantain in Jamacia and became a husband to his cousin Elizabeth henry. he was well respected by many people in his time. he was made a kings men and was made lieutenant governor of Jamacia. he was widely known as an ambitious and lively person. His most notable accomplishment was his capture of panama in his privateer days. Which permission from the king he and his men set out to capture panama and steal their ships. When they arrived in Panama they met up with some of the Spanish and when it looked like they would have been severely outnumbered Henry Morgan did not let that bring him  down. Even though the ratio of his men to the Spanish was significantly different Henry's crew had far better weapons and much more experience. Leading them to a notorious victory. As they were making their way through the

When you think of pirates you think of buried treasure and pirate ships and someone in an eye patch wearing an eyepatch. This was what the movie made the pirates look like when in real life they were not like that at all. They were very harsh to prisoners and were not as much worried about burying their treasure as they were having it on board or wearing it.  When reading Under The Black Flag by David Cordingly he talks about how some pirates would keep their prisoners in very tight quarters with not enough room to even lay down and bring them about for them to be beaten and abused by him or the members of his crew. When they were done with the prisoners they are often cut into pieces and thrown overboard. This came as a shock to me that pirates were actually this cruel to people.Now this is a very different story from what Disney and the others have made pirates out to be. They were much more harsh and aggressive with people them most would think. These true facts were covered up

When you think about pirates you often think about they way they are represented in movies or children's book. Unfortunately a lot of the information is not real. One of the most common myths about pirates is that they made their victims walk that plank. This was in fact a rare for of execution in the 18th and 19th century. Some other common ones were that they buried their treasure so no one else could find it, that they wore eyepatches and had peg legs . There is so much real things about pirates that got overlooked by the myths they have been portrayed in famous movies and books that most people today don't know what real life pirates actually did and did not do.

I'm a student at GGC. I'm a biology major. I find it interesting how the body and mind work. which is why my major focuses on it. One thing I love to do is go hiking. I've been to several different hiking trails in the state of Georgia and have loved every second of it. One of my life goals is the travel and see the world.