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I'm going to go check some books out on the subject. As of yet, I've only added a little bit on the subject. Also, since the Golden Age's supposable start and end date are all over the place, should we just use one, or mention the debate over it's time period? User:Caciss
I removed the "unreferenced" tag because I added several external links -- however, the article itself still needs improvement. Drew 04:42, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I added a little bit about Bart Roberts as he is from this period. (Darth)
ÁÛķĶå== Sid Meier's Pirates! ==
Why is Pirates! shown in this article? The game is primarily concerned with piracy in the 17th century, not the early 18th century. The latest start date you can choose is 1680, and I'm not sure it is possible to have your character survive into the Golden Age of Piracy.
The first paragraph of this article doesn't make sense. It says that the Golden Age of Piracy arose "with the end of the seventeenth century approaching," but then it gives the years as being a few decades into the eighteenth century. Can someone more knowledgeable in this area than I am re-word this so it makes sense? I think I know what you're going for -- the circumstances of the late seventeenth century gave rise to the Golden Age a few decades later? -- but right now it's very hard to understand. 68.175.61.17 22:49, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I came across this article by chance. Much of what I see in a quick reading is contradicted by The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. What first caught my attention was the schooner in the admittedly nice picture: the first schooner was launched in 1730, the date the article marks as the end of the period. While Oxford places the end of the "classic" age of piracy in as 1750, a schooner is still not typical for the period. The lack of topsails on the schooner and the plain--even semi-clipper--bow of the merchant ship suggests to me something like a century later than the period.
Next Oxford states that buccaneers are not pirates, but either technical privateers (the had letters of marque) or pretend privateers, who didn't have papers but acted like them in not attacking their own nation's ships.
Basically, someone needs to rewrite the article with an authoritative reference at hand, like Oxford. Unfortunately, I cannot do so at the present, but Oxford should be easy to find.
I agree with the above statement--there are various sources claiming the begining of the Golden Age was around 1680 and other dates. Please post a verfication of the 1690 date.
Also, I'm going to argue with the origins of piracy. People didn't just go "Oh, I think I'll be a pyrate!" when the war ended; there were various other reasons. At this point, the statemenet is original research--whoever posted it, please post your citation.
There is also no mention of Pirate constitutions, which were counteractions towards towards the situation and high mortality rate they faced.
...and also, I added a PROPER citation to Rekider. *sighs* I will be cleaning up and adding to this section when I get the chance. Kyuu 02:43, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know who first popularized the concept of a "Golden Age" of piracy? The earliest use of the phrase I've seen is Doug Botting's The Pirates from TimeLife Books' The Seafarers series, published in 1978. In that book he refers to the Golden Age as running from about 1690 to 1722. That's basically from Thomas Tew's first expedition to the hanging of Bartholomew Roberts' pirates at Cape Coast Castle.
I would contend that the concept of a "Golden Age" of piracy includes three possible elements.
1) That time period when pirates were most numerous in a given area.
2) That time period when the financial rewards of piracy were greatest.
3) That time period which has the most influence on the present-day popular visualization of pirates.
Defining a continuous "Golden Age" of piracy may not be possible. Almost every effort I've seen groups together two or three of the following widely separated time periods:
1) Elizabethan piracy, about 1567-1600. This period includes a lot of element 2, financial reward, because of Drake's capture of the Manila galleon and Peruvian silver train. But it has very little of element 1 - piracy was not much more common then compared to other eras. And it has almost none of element 3: the average modern person who hears the word "pirate" doesn't think of a guy in a ruff and baggy short pants who is likely to use a crossbow or matchlock gun. The only Elizabethan elements in the modern image of the pirate are the rapier and the galleon. And worst of all, the Elizabethan sea dogs were no more than borderline pirates; they thought of themselves as soldiers and were treated as such by their queen.
2) The Tortuga/Port Royal buccaneering period, about 1660-1682. This period includes element 1 - lots of pirates; the shores of Tortuga and Jamaica teemed with Brethren of the Coast. It includes element 2, financial reward, but not from the popularly imagined sources, like galleons stuffed with gold and silver. Most of the big jackpots from this era were plundered towns like Maracaibo. And it probably has the most of element 3: rapiers and knuckle-bow cutlasses both used contemporaneously, bucket-topped boots (worn by gentlemen, though maybe not by real pirates), broad-brimmed hats with plumes, flintlock guns, long Captain-Hook-style wigs, and fiendish tortures by guys like l'Ollonois and Morgan.
3) The Roundsman period, about 1690-1700. This doesn't have so much of element 1. There weren't that many Roundsmen, and most sailors were tied up in the naval service during the War of the Grand Alliance. It has a huge amount of element 2, especially with Tew, Avery and Kidd all hitting the jackpot in the Indian Ocean, by robbing ships, not towns. It has a lot of element 3, especially tricorne hats. But it loses some of the things the buccaneer period had, especially the bucket boots and the rapiers, which are now being replaced by buckle shoes and smallswords. Also, at this time piracy is losing its air of military respectability and beoming more of the "against all flags" affair represented in the movies by Errol Flynn.
4) The post-Spanish Succession period, about 1715-1725. This has a huge amount of element 1, probably the most pirates the Western world ever saw, with all the navy sailors discharged and all the privateer letters of marque being revoked. Pirates in this period ranged from the Caribbean to West Africa to Madagascar, and Bartholomew Roberts robbed over 400 ships. But it has a lot less of element 2: although John Taylor and Oliver LaBuze did strike it rich with the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, basically all the other pirates, even Roberts, were just scraping by. As for element 3: this era has Blackbeard. 'Nuff said.
Pirate Dan 07:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I note that a number of people are attempting to work out the exact (or approximate) dates or sets of dates for the (multiple?) "Golden Age(s) of Piracy". However, untill something comes of it, an articel on a "Golden Age" of anything that doesn't give any dates for the "Age" is incomplete. 68.39.174.238 22:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
The article needs a clear definition as the first sentence; as is, it only states where the Golden Age of Piracy occurred. I don't know much about the subject, so creating a definition would be better left to others. -- MatthewLiberal 01:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I see no comments from 2008. If anyone wants to work on this article, i will help. Contact me on my talk page. Beam ( talk) 15:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone care to provide insight into this? Aldrich Hanssen ( talk) 16:52, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
whoops, read it wrong. Sorry. I thought you said what caused it. I'll try to learn more before I post again. Bon-Pirate ( talk) 21:10, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
wschoate@csufresno.edu: Just had to reset the page, let cluebot do the work. Somebody goatse'd it. Watch out for this crap on other articles, folks. We need to know how it ended!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.45.229.238 ( talk) 12:48, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter's Companion mentions Arabella Drummond, but there is no mention of her in this article nor is there an article on her. It's almost certain she's a fictional character - in which case the relevant articles should both spell this out and say who she may have been modelled on. 66.19.243.207 ( talk) 23:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I am going to add a section about how the concept of a "Golden Age" of piracy originated, how it has changed over time, and how various historians have defined it. Until I'm ready to edit the article, I'm going to use this section as a sort of dumping ground for references and definitions about the Golden Age.
Patrick Pringle's 1951 book Jolly Roger: The Story of the Great Age of Piracy uses the term "great age" rather than "Golden Age," or else simply calls it the "Age of Piracy." He describes it as "the most flourishing era in the history of piracy, which began in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and ended in the second decade of the eighteenth century." P. 9 of the 2001 edition. Pirate Dan ( talk) 15:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
this should be a featured article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.109.0.155 ( talk) 18:09, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm not advocating merging the articles, but the parallels between the "Golden Age of Piracy" and the age of " Privateering" are pretty striking, so I'd say the two (or more?) articles should at least be maintained in concert. 68.174.97.122 ( talk) 23:35, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
In the section "Effect on popular culture", it says that Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag "drew heavily from this romanticized ideal of piracy" and that it "helped implant an (often inaccurate) image of old-time pirates in contemporary minds". I've played the game and this is certainly not true. Yes, you play as a pirate and you can attack and plunder ships, but neither piracy nor the era are glorified in any way. The game actually focuses on the darker and unpleasant sides, and how piracy isn't such a good life. Could somebody please rewrite this? 81.242.106.152 ( talk) 16:57, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
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Pirates were opium addicts. The spice trade was mostly about opium. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.44.236.4 ( talk) 04:10, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
The pirates mentioned as "most well known" in the "Pirates of the era" section are literally all British. Perhaps they're best known in English-speaking countries, but it's not exactly representative. Prinsgezinde ( talk) 21:18, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
"According to Robert Davis,[31][32] between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in Northern Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries."
Note that no other historian agrees with Davis on this estimate, and it's been frequently cited by those trying to bolster claims of "white slavery". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonathan f1 ( talk • contribs) 09:22, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
"The nature of the relationships between Bonny, Read, and Rackham have been speculated to be romantic and/or sexual in various combinations, though there is no definitive proof."
With all due respect... why is this sentence here? There's no citation, the wording is extremely vague (who's speculating this?,) and it contradicts a sentence that precedes it by a mere paragraph (where Rackham is definitively stated to be Bonny's lover, with no ambiguity.)
In any case, I fail to see how the romantic and sexual activities of these two women is relevant to their place in this article. Claykilmer ( talk) 13:11, 20 July 2024 (UTC)