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July 20, 2020Pirates

Pirate ship organization.

Mr. Dolin’s book Black Flags, Blue Waters provides intriguing background on how pirates organized themselves and how they split up the booty. […]

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020Pirates

Volume of silver flowing out of the conquered territories.

In Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates author Eric Jay Dolin provides background on one reason […]

July 15, 2020July 13, 2020Pirates

Why pirates were accepted in the colonies, even welcomed as good neighbors.

In Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates Eric Jay Dolin says that from the early 1680s […]

July 13, 2020Pirates

Pirates in the Americas are fascinating, just not like anything you see in the movies.

Blockbuster movies of today, swashbuckling movies of yesteryear, and fantastical books give us a delightful picture of piracy in the Americas several […]

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