The Truth About Pirates

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.