wired please NEVER stop making these - specifically the ones about medieval civilizations and scientific experts. i'm OBSESSED and have learned so much
My favorite part of being a child obsessed with pirates was learning about Zheng Yi Sao (born Shi Yang) who married a privateer, contracted by the Vietnamese Tây Son Dynasty, turned pirate then took control his pirate confederation after his death. At one point it was a fleet of 400 ships. 40-60,000 pirates!!! She faced down the East India Trading Company, the Portuguese and the Qing authorities. She was one of the most successful pirates in history AND she managed to negotiate her surrender, retire at 35 and live the rest of her life in relative peace and prosperity. She was only one page in my Piratology boom, but whenever someone say pirate, I always think of her first!
I love the idea of how some person on the internet saw an eye patch on a pirate and made some elaborate theory about how they used it to block out light or whatever and this guy's just like "yeah no most likely their eye got poked out" as if that wasn't the most common sense answer for an eye patch.
There's a great episode of Mythbusters where they tested it and it seemed very plausible! Mainly for going below deck during the day, seems like it'd come in handy if you were usually in the bright sun
European sailors were, on the whole, quite superstitious. From misogynistic ones like women being bad luck to traditional ones like not setting out on a Friday.
As the expert stated during the "what weapons did Pirates use" section, pirates actually rarely tried to hurt/kill people during raiding actions. The point was to coerce merchant vessels into surrendering without a fight. They did this because murdering everybody on a boat is a good way to have a gigantic bounty placed on your head/ship making it much more difficult to function if other pirates/privateers want to collect on their head. Also, pirates *wanted* merchant ships to continue using their trade routes. If it became too dangerous to do their jobs, the merchants wouldn't go and the pirates wouldn't have any plunder to make ends meet. Sometimes it even functioned like the more modern mafia, where pirates would allow merchant vessels safe passage as long as they paid a fee or a portion of their trade goods. There are actual records of merchants packing additional things on board just to account for this "fee". Mind you, this isn't universal obviously. Some pirates really were violent psychopaths. But they tended to not operate very long. Black Beard himself is only recorded to have ever killed a person during the final battle onboard his boat where he lost his life. Edit: Just wanted to add this in case people think I'm glorifying pirates. While most didn't hurt or kill people the majority of the time, some still did, brutally. And in situations where merchant vessels didn't surrender peacefully, even the less violent pirates were known to injure/kill the captain of the resisting ship, just to send a message not to resist in the future.
Fun fact: Blackbeard’s raid on Charleston was to get medicine for his crew, who were dying of scurvy. And the whole thing nearly went catastrophically wrong because the guy he sent as a messenger got distracted by bar hopping.
1:32 ceasar was captured by pirates and when they told him how much ransom they were asking he told him that he is worth far more then that, and that if he became free he would hunt them down.
Julius caeser. They told him the ransom was 20 talents and he responded that they should ask for 50. He also did muster a fleet to hunt them down and had them crucified
This channel is so good at bringing in experts who know exactly what they’re talking about but don’t make any of these questions seem stupid. If it’s a little outlandish they’ll find a way to tie in a bit of their knowledge and make the question an actually good one. I do enjoy it. This guy is very well spoken and I adore his accent
My aunt turned 80 in August, and I told her to enjoy her pirate birthday year. She was like, “yeah, ok…”. Someone recently asked her how old she was, so she said “I’m eighty”, then she called me up all excited like “oh, now I get it!”
Right? He even said "pirates never lived long enough to go old and gray." And yet, he's an old, graying man with a hard-to-place accent and an encyclopedic knowledge of piracy. I get the feeling he was trying to throw us off his trail. 🏴☠️
A slice of pie in St. Croix is $1.25. A slice of pie in Barbados is $1.50 and a slice of pie in Jamaica is $1.75. Those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
It's clear that Oda studies pirate history when creating characters for One Piece. Loved hearing names like Bonney and Edward Teach being based on real pirates. THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!
Mythbusters did an episode on pirates and I remember one of them wore an eyepatch for a while in the daytime and then went into a very dark room and then lifted up the patch. He was actually able to see much better because his one eye was already acclimated to the darkness. Whether or not pirates actually did this is another question. 😊
And the answer is no. It's possible that some pirate or another had the idea and did it, but if it had caught on, someone would have written it down. Especially if it caught on with sailors in general, who would have had just as much reason to do that, and the stereotype used to be sailors having eyepatches instead of just pirates. The real way they saw below decks was deck prisms.
of course it helps to cover the eye. But it takes about 15 min for eyes to adapt to the darkness, and in those times (especially on a ship) there will be very little artificial light to begin with so you basically are wearing patches all the time at night
I use the pirate strategy every night when I go to the bathroom to avoid turning on any lights. I walk to the bathroom in the dark, seeing everything, and once I turn on the light, I close my right eye. It's really cool-when I leave, my right eye can see everything, while the left one seems blind.
It's a trade-off. No more three-dimensional sight? Or instant vision in dark spots? I'd prefer not to wear the eyepatch, because you won't be able to use arrows or guns at all.
Anne and Mary are the iconic examples for the 18th century Caribbean. But other female pirates include Grace O’Malley (16th century Ireland), and Zheng Yi Sao (19th century South China Sea).
@ never claimed they were common, but a) these are just the most famous examples, and b)Grace and Zheng Yi Sao were both powerful leaders in their time, as opposed to Anne and Mary who were certainly fierce but were crew members, not captains.
@@Retroxyl I am not familiar with “bloody rose of China” being used in her day, but there is a modern song about her (or at least inspired by her) titled that
Konstam's "Piracy: The Complete History" is a great addition to any library of seafaring mayhem and goes into more detail about many of the topics discussed here.
Good stuff. A note about walking the plank (timestamp 5:00). As Peter Pan was produced as a theatrical play, I can see that walking the plank creates a great stage scene.
@@Shoxic666 Thanks for agreeing with me. My point was that the plank and placing one man (probably a hero) against the pirate) was a great way of staging a scene.
@@kf9926 Given that it was created for a corny children's play, I'm not sure what the complaint is. It's later use and the idea that it really happened are corny, but many infantile things for children's stories end up that way when inserted into adult drama or presumed real history.
Just to add, pirates generally had a good 'insurance' policy! Basically if you were injured in any action on board, you'd get a payout depending on injury. Generally if you lost a limb, pirates would get a decent lump of money and get off at the next stop.
I love the Pirate/Seafaring Mythos. The idea that people spent their entire lives on the sea. Things like the Krakens, Sirens, Whirlpools, etc. love it. And the ships look cool af too.
So pirate didn't necessarily set slaves free. If you were captured by a pirate captain that had been part of the slave trade prior to turning to piracy, (and MANY pirate captain and crew were previous slaver crew, it might even be the same vessel) you were getting sold, not released.
I also found that part a bit disingenuous, especially when he also says pirates captured merchant vessels for their cargo... Slaves were viewed as part of the cargo to be sold, along with everything else.
@@vb8801 Yeah I'm surprised the historian didn't mention that there was piratical involvement in the slave trade. Conversely, slaves could actually be seen as a burden, e.g. Bartholomew Roberts once captured a slave ship and decided it was more efficient to burn it with the dozens of slaves shackled on board than to go through the time-consuming process of unchaining them.
@@IsmailofeRegime idk, I find it plausible or that some freed slaves would get into piracy. Doing that by having the pirates raiding your ship offer a helping hand is maybe less likely though.
@@ConjureNoonSloth It's perfectly plausible and did happen. It's just that certain pirate ships taking advantage of the slave trade to acquire and sell human cargo was also something that happened. It's why one has to be wary not to generalize too much about pirate life and motives.
A shame that he didnt mention Zheng Yi Sao as one of the examples of female pirates. She commanded a massive fleet in the south china sea. Piracy in asia in general is still very under discussed but its just as interesting.
There's also Grace O'Malley, an Irish pirate who commanded a large fleet of ships, harassed the English, and was considered a chieftain. She was so successful that she's one of the few pirates that did live into old age. The Wikipedia page on her is incredibly interesting.
@@Cyssane there was also Jeanne de Clisson, a bretone noble who had a personal grudge on French, looted their ships for a long time as English privateer and also survived till old age. Though, she broke the pirate code by fleeing during her last battle when French actually managed to surround her. She left most of the crew as a bait and fleed on a small ship with her two sons and a few aides.
I'm still shocked by how many historians and even pirate experts don't seem to know about the VERY PROMINENTLY PIRATE-SOUNDING Cornish accent, or West Country accent. You know, the accent of people on the coastline of England? NEAR THE OCEAN. *WHERE ALL THE PORTS ARE.*
And related to one of the prominent Newfoundland accents, Newfoundland having been partially settled by West Country people, and one of the recruiting grounds for pirates.
@@fiedelmina coastline towards the open ocean, in this case: europe is on one side, ireland is on the other, and you can't go much further north unless you plan to visit Norway, so there's really only south or southwest to go
Hey now, let’s give credit to Penny Rise who was the costume designer that’s created the whole look for the Pirates of the Caribbean. She even won an Oscar for it.
3:05 Peg legs were common in sailors in general before the invention of the exploding shell. Before that, in naval warfare, shells where going through the wooden ships without exploding but causing a wave of splinters that was dealing the most damage to the crew. Such splinters would impale or break off limbs and a common solution was to amputate and replace with whatever prostatic could be improvised.
Well tbh, this is focused on a very specific time/ place. Other than a brief mention of Roman times, pirates have existed all over the world since people put to sea. Barbary, Somali, Indian ocean, malay, Chinese, etc ....
and her story is just mind-blowing. In pure numbers, the flotilla she commandeered. Comparing with her those Blackbeard guys looks much less impressive..
10:09 the captions say "land lovers" but the term he used was "landlubbers", which is a way to describe people who are not familiar with the sea and sailing.
@@hashirsibtain haha, no, shamefully enough it's World of Warcraft. In one of the first dungeons in the game, there is a group of pirates who have a boat inside a secret cave. One of the henchmen is Mr. Smite, which players have to fight. He has an iconic line during the fight, where he says: "You landlubbers are tougher than I thought!", before switching to a stronger weapon.
@@FMxEagle Nothing shameful about WoW... especially old WoW and especially compared with fastfood games like Assassin's Creed, lol. As another non-native speaker it taught me a lot too.
I mean vikings were basically that and it's how they got Normandy in France, the french didn't want more viking raids on their lands so they got retirees that would basically act as deterrents because *these are veterans*
Actually, the west (and east) country accent is similar to how they'd have spoken in the 16/1700s across a lot of England. So many English pirates would have sounded like that. That accent has survived in the most rural parts to the east and west of the country.
The most famous one is probably female one called Zheng Yi Sao or Ching Shih. She got a huge pirate fleet after her first husband died, was only captured when like half of it rebelled and she actually bargined with Chinese Imperial goverment. She got away with most of her loot and opened the casino while her second husbent got easy government position with decent salary.
i am an historian myself and the eyepatch "theory" is pretty much confirmed by a lot of sources we gathered over time. Yes they did use it to quickly adjust to the darkness of the lower decks because as he mentioned candles where a no go below deck
I think one of the most shocking things I ever learned about pirates was what they ate. Most people assume they ate hardtack, which is true, but they also ate something we’d fine even more disgusting than months old, hard biscuits: Pirates made a stew called Salmagundi- which was basically a pot that they would keep boiling for months on end, and they would throw in whatever meat they found into said pot and keep the stew cooking. And I don’t just mean cow, chicken, pig or fish. Turtles, seagulls and even rats were not off limits. Whatever meat was found- went into the pot.
Yeah, kids don't contemplate why the peas porridge is 9 days old, they just sing the rhyme. It would be more unusual to find a culture that didn't have a perpetual stew in its culinary history than one that did. Seafarers of all types loved sea turtles because they would live for weeks strapped to the deck while you ate other foods that quickly spoiled before slaughtering them.
Honestly, any time someone says that Batman's villains are theatrical and not very realistic, I just point to Cpt. Blackbeard, that guy was basically a 1700's version of TwoFace
13:17 slight correction, Howard Pyle did indeed do a lot of paintings in that style, but the illustrator of Treasure Island which really established the pirate look was N.C. Wyeth, father of the famous painter Andrew Wyeth
The thing with eyepatches is that while yes, the Mythbusters did find it plausible to help with night vision, it also ruins your depth perception which is important when you are trying to fight someone. It also wouldn't really help with going below decks because lanterns exist, and it isn't that dark anyway with all the vents. It's like walking into a building on a sunny day, sure it takes a bit for your eyes to adjust but it doesn't warrant removing the use of one of your eyes to save the 60 seconds it takes to adjust
Another historical fact about pirates: their ships were often small to medium is size. The bigger the ship, the larger the crew, which required keeping them fed and hydrated. Fresh water and food spoiled fast in the tropical climate. Water would "turn" in the wooden barrels over time and become murky with bacteria. It was easier to keep rum or wine since the alcohol prevented bacteria, plus a buzzed crew tended to be less hostile toward the captain and living conditions. A smaller ship also allowed pirates to sail over reefs and shallows, giving them the advantage over larger ships in that they could escape toward shore or hide out near shore and pounce on a passing ship. Smaller ships were more nimble too, allowing them to evade cannon fire and literally sail circles around a big merchant ship.
funny enough, I remember playing Patrician (3 or 4? not sure), and I found out pretty soon when trying to turn pirate that large "stronger" ships were a disaster against the very heavy cannon fire of the docks, it was like being a sitting duck. While small fast ships could often evade them altogether.
There was also Madame Shih, over in China, who commanded a whole pirate fleet, who was so feared and so powerful that when she saw divisions in her fleet start to form and threaten her position, she took part of it, attacked China itself, made a deal for pardoning herself and her husband, and then through him gave information to the government to take down the other half of her former fleet. She lived out her life as a merchant, her husband became a commander in the Chinese navy, and she’s one of the very few pirates to have lived to and died of old age
Sort of.. one of them died still in prison and most likely the other one too tho there is a chance 1 lived another decade or so I just can't remember which is which
@@drewtoler3135 Mary Read died in prison in 1721. Anne Bonny's fate is unknown. In recent years, a burial registry of Jamaica was found documenting the burial of an Anne Bonny in 1733, but although the time and place match, the registry doesn't specifically say she was a pirate, so we can't be positive if this is her or another woman with the same name.
Bonnie is in Black sails I'm pretty sure, as well as Jack Rackham, Charles Vane and several other historical figures. But the show is primarily about this one Captain whose name I can't recall.
@@no_nameyouknow The fictional Captain Flint (the show is a prequel to Treasure Island). I love that Black Sails incorporated real pirates like Anne Bonny, even if it wasn't 100% historically accurate.
They made a game, Assassins Creed, Black Flag (Historical events mixed with fiction) both, Mary and Anne appear accurately and their fates are historical. Mary dies in your arms in prison while you try to save her (super sad scene), and Anne sort of runs off with the main character and assists him before he retires, I would recomend you play the game, it's awesome.
19:24 - Mythbusters tested the notion that the eye patch was used to protect 1 eye for use in the dark and it definitely made a difference. While not proof that it did happen? It does suggestion that is could have.
@gelraldoldo5152 that probably is another reason. They were looking into other reasons why a pirate would wear an eye patch. Not to say it was the only reason.
I didnt catch the direct OP quote and thought you were talking about our world right now, nd the words "Platinum Age of Piracy" will now live rent free in my head.
It's the same with Viking fashion. They also wore colored clothing, and their ships were painted with various bright red, blue, green and yellow colored stripes, like sailing rainbows. Not very menacing in relation to how we view colors today.
If you listen to the "original pronunciation" developed for Shakespeare plays, in part by David Crystal, it does sound surprisingly like what we would think of as 'pirate talk'. And it is contemporary with the early days of British piracy.
So are we just going to gloss over when he said most pirates were teenage boys or in their early 20s....? It explains sooooo much! Even why anyone would join a pirate crew after their ship was captured. Pirates were just hormonal, impulsive children with underdeveloped brains all along 😂
@@buchanfoulsham6314 My understanding is that the low “average age” Is a misunderstanding. Child mortality rates were high, which means that the ‘mean’ age of death was low, but ‘mean’ age is not representative of the typical lifespan.
To be fair British English was still mostly rhotic in the 16th 17th centuries, plus a lot of oceanic activity (like the Mayflower) was focused around the Southwest, so it's not entirely arbitrary that the pirate accent is portrayed as a West Country accent.
Yes. Bristol was then one of Britain’s key ports, especially when it came to trade with the Americas and Caribbean, where settlers inevitably were also highly rhotic.
There has been pirate treasure found. The wreck of the Whydah off the coast of Cape Cod contained a large amount of gold an silver (4.5 tons) in coinage, jewelry, and bullion, some of which is on display in its museum.
I don't think that counts. "Lost in a shipwreck" and "buried where the X marks the spot" are very different things, and he specifically mentioned "buried treasure" in his answer.
I was waiting for him to mention the Whydah! The question didn’t specify buried treasure, just pirate treasure! Seeing the real artifacts in the museum, especially the ones they’re still desalinating, was one of my favorite museum experiences ever.
@@ericsmith5919 That's the thing though, the question specified treasure, not specifically buried (on land) treasure. There's a LOT of pirate treasure that has been found, just not in chests on islands, etc.
Something I learned that suprised me is that the "ARRRGHH" isn't pronounced how you think it is (if you're American like me). Many pirates had non-rhotic accents, so yelling "AARRGHHH" is basically just "AHHHHHH". Similar to how Harry Potter books use "erm" in place of "umm"
@reilandeubank I remember being very confused when I read those books when I was younger, I understood what it meant but I was like "who tf says"erm,"? So you're saying that's how they spell it but they pronounce it the same way we say "um,"?
this is a great video!!! thank you for inviting this guy on, i learned so much! also yall need to chill lol this guy clearly specializes in western/caribbean piracy and that's still valid and informative. this is quite common in academia- people focus their studies on certain regions, just like how non-western historians might focus their studies on non-western cultures. other people specialize in other areas of history. instead of getting mad about this guy not mentioning your favorite pirate when his expertise focuses on an entirely different geographic scope, maybe watch a video about non-western pirates or ask WIRED if they can invite other pirate experts on here. some of yall seem incapable of enjoying anything if it fails to meet your arbitrary line in the sand.
bring him back this dude is chill af
Heck yeah he is. 🦜
He’s cool AF
dude looks like Tom Segura
Yarrr!
Too bad he is just quoting a book that isn't credible at all.
wired please NEVER stop making these - specifically the ones about medieval civilizations and scientific experts. i'm OBSESSED and have learned so much
Fax
My favorite part of being a child obsessed with pirates was learning about Zheng Yi Sao (born Shi Yang) who married a privateer, contracted by the Vietnamese Tây Son Dynasty, turned pirate then took control his pirate confederation after his death. At one point it was a fleet of 400 ships. 40-60,000 pirates!!! She faced down the East India Trading Company, the Portuguese and the Qing authorities. She was one of the most successful pirates in history AND she managed to negotiate her surrender, retire at 35 and live the rest of her life in relative peace and prosperity. She was only one page in my Piratology boom, but whenever someone say pirate, I always think of her first!
The channel Voices Of The Past, has a video about this.
Omg yes! I remember learning about her as a kid and thinking how amazing she was.
Wow 40 or 60 thousand, quite the range!
She's exactly who I was thinking of, when the question about female pirates came up!
That’s so cool!
“I wish Tricorn hats would come back into fashion”
SPEAK BROTHER
M'lady
Great video, but he never got into their practice of illegally downloading copyrighted material. Hopefully he'll address this in a second video.
Would you download a treasure?
@@DetectiveTrupo203 “you wouldn’t steal a car”
@@DetectiveTrupo203I'd download a ship
@@JoshAllenberg i would too friend. Congratulations on your engagement
@@kdot9613you wouldn’t steal a policeman’s helmet
I love the idea of how some person on the internet saw an eye patch on a pirate and made some elaborate theory about how they used it to block out light or whatever and this guy's just like "yeah no most likely their eye got poked out" as if that wasn't the most common sense answer for an eye patch.
This idea has been around a while. The Myth Busters actually did an episode testing and it is possible even if we have not evidence of it.
Yeah, i love that it is possible it could be used for low light bur its most likely just they lost an eye
There's a great episode of Mythbusters where they tested it and it seemed very plausible! Mainly for going below deck during the day, seems like it'd come in handy if you were usually in the bright sun
Occam's Razor is an elegant tool of mind.
@@thehomeschoolinglibrarian there's no practical use for it.
"Pirates simply wore large Straw Hats". Huh. So that's the origin of that. Good to know.
so there is chance there was someone called luffy with a strawhat who also was a pirate
@@ausername9190 Nobody named Monkey D, probably, but a Shanks wearing a straw hat is definitely real.
Tekking I am so glad we have the same taste in youtube videos lmao.
@@Tekking101 first rule of the pirate code: wear a strawhat
I was expecting a few One Piece TH-camrs in the comments. Didn't expect you so soon though :D
Blackbeard is so cool to read about, he used borderline theater gimmicks to scare merchants into surrendering.
European sailors were, on the whole, quite superstitious.
From misogynistic ones like women being bad luck to traditional ones like not setting out on a Friday.
Smart move, get the loot without a fight.
Kinda like Batman
As the expert stated during the "what weapons did Pirates use" section, pirates actually rarely tried to hurt/kill people during raiding actions. The point was to coerce merchant vessels into surrendering without a fight. They did this because murdering everybody on a boat is a good way to have a gigantic bounty placed on your head/ship making it much more difficult to function if other pirates/privateers want to collect on their head. Also, pirates *wanted* merchant ships to continue using their trade routes. If it became too dangerous to do their jobs, the merchants wouldn't go and the pirates wouldn't have any plunder to make ends meet. Sometimes it even functioned like the more modern mafia, where pirates would allow merchant vessels safe passage as long as they paid a fee or a portion of their trade goods. There are actual records of merchants packing additional things on board just to account for this "fee".
Mind you, this isn't universal obviously. Some pirates really were violent psychopaths. But they tended to not operate very long.
Black Beard himself is only recorded to have ever killed a person during the final battle onboard his boat where he lost his life.
Edit: Just wanted to add this in case people think I'm glorifying pirates. While most didn't hurt or kill people the majority of the time, some still did, brutally. And in situations where merchant vessels didn't surrender peacefully, even the less violent pirates were known to injure/kill the captain of the resisting ship, just to send a message not to resist in the future.
@@isaacgleeth3609pretty much everyone everywhere is very superstitious, this wasn't exclusive to sailors
Fun fact: Blackbeard’s raid on Charleston was to get medicine for his crew, who were dying of scurvy. And the whole thing nearly went catastrophically wrong because the guy he sent as a messenger got distracted by bar hopping.
Lmao a classic blunder
So I'm gonna assume since we in the present know he went bar hopping, Blackbeard knew too😳
It was syphilis, not scurvy. And they used mercury as medicine for it.
1:32 ceasar was captured by pirates and when they told him how much ransom they were asking he told him that he is worth far more then that, and that if he became free he would hunt them down.
And he did hunt them down.
Ceaser was Him.
Badass!
They were so amazed at his boldness that they treated him more like he was an honoured guest than a hostage.
Julius caeser. They told him the ransom was 20 talents and he responded that they should ask for 50. He also did muster a fleet to hunt them down and had them crucified
This channel is so good at bringing in experts who know exactly what they’re talking about but don’t make any of these questions seem stupid. If it’s a little outlandish they’ll find a way to tie in a bit of their knowledge and make the question an actually good one. I do enjoy it. This guy is very well spoken and I adore his accent
Tbh, unusually for these videos, in this one a lot of the things being answered actually did feel pretty inane and stupid.
@@jonathanb1406well we're all very sorry that you feel that way
@@velvetunderbite Weird comment but cheers.
@@jonathanb1406 cheers. NORM!
You’d think a pirate’s favorite letter would be r, but their first love be the c
I thought it was "aye" (I)
Their favourite letter was n
I laughed WAAAYYYYY too hard at this 😂😂😂 hilarious
pirates accent is an actual English accent you would of heard at the time of Shakespeare.
But without the P, they’re just “irate”
My aunt turned 80 in August, and I told her to enjoy her pirate birthday year. She was like, “yeah, ok…”. Someone recently asked her how old she was, so she said “I’m eighty”, then she called me up all excited like “oh, now I get it!”
@@themustar601 ooooh I get it now 😂😂😂 good one
Took me a while too 😂
I still don't get it. Maybe I'm slow.
Or maybe bc I haven't finished this video yet.
@@christopherwalker2228”I’m eighty” sounds like “aye matey”
@@Kimmie9553you're a legend
We need this guy more. Whole segments dedicated to individual pirates.
10:40 so pirates actually wore straw hats?!! Mind blown
Ikr!?!? Like so luffy ain't just wearing his hat for no purpose... He wearing it cause it protects him!
he's a retired pirate and no one will convince me otherwise!!
Right? He even said "pirates never lived long enough to go old and gray." And yet, he's an old, graying man with a hard-to-place accent and an encyclopedic knowledge of piracy. I get the feeling he was trying to throw us off his trail. 🏴☠️
@@Drekromancer His real name is actually Edward Newgate
Also the fact that ht fits into the 2 different types of hats. It's not about the hats' size.
@@Drekromancer not that hard to place, he's scottish
Bro has pirated so many movies
A slice of pie in St. Croix is $1.25. A slice of pie in Barbados is $1.50 and a slice of pie in Jamaica is $1.75. Those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
GROAN. 😂😂😂
unfortunately, I cackled hysterically 😭 or maybe historically?
Warum können Seeräuber nicht im Kreis segeln? Weil sie Pi raten!
Well done
$4.50 and a motorboat and you've got yourself a nice little weekend
"What was pirate rule #1?" No candles while gambling and drinking
"What did pirates do for fun?" No one knows
Some questions will just never be answered, unfortunately.
“I’LL never tell…!”
Gambling and drinking in the dark, of course!
🤣
no one has ever seen a pirate gambling and drinking
My sleep deprived eyes misread part of the title as "Teach Support", like Captain Teach.
I'm already immersed.
It's clear that Oda studies pirate history when creating characters for One Piece. Loved hearing names like Bonney and Edward Teach being based on real pirates. THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!
And apparently the fact that pirates did wear straw hats! This was news to me!
Mythbusters did an episode on pirates and I remember one of them wore an eyepatch for a while in the daytime and then went into a very dark room and then lifted up the patch. He was actually able to see much better because his one eye was already acclimated to the darkness. Whether or not pirates actually did this is another question. 😊
And the answer is no. It's possible that some pirate or another had the idea and did it, but if it had caught on, someone would have written it down. Especially if it caught on with sailors in general, who would have had just as much reason to do that, and the stereotype used to be sailors having eyepatches instead of just pirates.
The real way they saw below decks was deck prisms.
of course it helps to cover the eye. But it takes about 15 min for eyes to adapt to the darkness, and in those times (especially on a ship) there will be very little artificial light to begin with so you basically are wearing patches all the time at night
I use the pirate strategy every night when I go to the bathroom to avoid turning on any lights. I walk to the bathroom in the dark, seeing everything, and once I turn on the light, I close my right eye. It's really cool-when I leave, my right eye can see everything, while the left one seems blind.
@@DanielLCarriertil what a deck prism was
It's a trade-off.
No more three-dimensional sight? Or instant vision in dark spots?
I'd prefer not to wear the eyepatch, because you won't be able to use arrows or guns at all.
I enjoy listening to Angus speak. I feel like I could listen to him talk about anything. His knowledge on piracy is very interesting.
Anne and Mary are the iconic examples for the 18th century Caribbean. But other female pirates include Grace O’Malley (16th century Ireland), and Zheng Yi Sao (19th century South China Sea).
wow thats so many!
@ never claimed they were common, but a) these are just the most famous examples, and b)Grace and Zheng Yi Sao were both powerful leaders in their time, as opposed to Anne and Mary who were certainly fierce but were crew members, not captains.
Is that the same chinese pirate that is also called pirate queen or the bloody rose of China, or is that another female chinese pirate?
@@Retroxyl I am not familiar with “bloody rose of China” being used in her day, but there is a modern song about her (or at least inspired by her) titled that
There's a bar in Toronto called Grace O'Malley's.
I still think Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa is by far the best pirate portrayal
It's amazing how much really cool stuff writers and filmmakers leave on the table when making pirate media.
Konstam's "Piracy: The Complete History" is a great addition to any library of seafaring mayhem and goes into more detail about many of the topics discussed here.
“Arrrrr, Tis no man. Tis a remorseless eatin machine”
-The Sea Captain commenting on Homer Simpson visiting his all you can eat fish buffet.
"That could have been me!"
"I heard they shaved a gorilla"
Come for the freak. Stay for the food.
"Come see Bottomless Pete!"
Good stuff. A note about walking the plank (timestamp 5:00). As Peter Pan was produced as a theatrical play, I can see that walking the plank creates a great stage scene.
Really it's only the plank that's inaccurate. They almost certainly chucked people overboard for shits and giggz.
@@Shoxic666 Thanks for agreeing with me. My point was that the plank and placing one man (probably a hero) against the pirate) was a great way of staging a scene.
@@sidkemp4672many have complained it’s corny and immature
@@kf9926 Given that it was created for a corny children's play, I'm not sure what the complaint is. It's later use and the idea that it really happened are corny, but many infantile things for children's stories end up that way when inserted into adult drama or presumed real history.
@ yes of course I’m referring to later use
Just to add, pirates generally had a good 'insurance' policy! Basically if you were injured in any action on board, you'd get a payout depending on injury. Generally if you lost a limb, pirates would get a decent lump of money and get off at the next stop.
I love the Pirate/Seafaring Mythos. The idea that people spent their entire lives on the sea. Things like the Krakens, Sirens, Whirlpools, etc. love it. And the ships look cool af too.
1:01 why are pirates called pirates?
“Cause they arrrrrrr!” 🏴☠️
@@LukeTownley yarg! Methinks you be correct matey
Yaaarhhh, a piece of silver to that man!
@@moochoman9948 yaaarrryyu!
😂😂😂😂
Sept 19th is international Talk Like A Pirate Day
So pirate didn't necessarily set slaves free. If you were captured by a pirate captain that had been part of the slave trade prior to turning to piracy, (and MANY pirate captain and crew were previous slaver crew, it might even be the same vessel) you were getting sold, not released.
The enemy of my enemy…. Sort of deal perhaps
I also found that part a bit disingenuous, especially when he also says pirates captured merchant vessels for their cargo... Slaves were viewed as part of the cargo to be sold, along with everything else.
@@vb8801 Yeah I'm surprised the historian didn't mention that there was piratical involvement in the slave trade. Conversely, slaves could actually be seen as a burden, e.g. Bartholomew Roberts once captured a slave ship and decided it was more efficient to burn it with the dozens of slaves shackled on board than to go through the time-consuming process of unchaining them.
@@IsmailofeRegime idk, I find it plausible or that some freed slaves would get into piracy. Doing that by having the pirates raiding your ship offer a helping hand is maybe less likely though.
@@ConjureNoonSloth It's perfectly plausible and did happen. It's just that certain pirate ships taking advantage of the slave trade to acquire and sell human cargo was also something that happened. It's why one has to be wary not to generalize too much about pirate life and motives.
A shame that he didnt mention Zheng Yi Sao as one of the examples of female pirates. She commanded a massive fleet in the south china sea. Piracy in asia in general is still very under discussed but its just as interesting.
I *love* her! Learning about her was SO, so cool. Thanks, Puppet History!
Oooo, I had never heard of her! Immediately looked her up, thanks!
She had command of over 100 should in that fleet didn't she?
There's also Grace O'Malley, an Irish pirate who commanded a large fleet of ships, harassed the English, and was considered a chieftain. She was so successful that she's one of the few pirates that did live into old age. The Wikipedia page on her is incredibly interesting.
@@Cyssane there was also Jeanne de Clisson, a bretone noble who had a personal grudge on French, looted their ships for a long time as English privateer and also survived till old age. Though, she broke the pirate code by fleeing during her last battle when French actually managed to surround her. She left most of the crew as a bait and fleed on a small ship with her two sons and a few aides.
0:51 this is how i thought Irish sounded when i was a toddler.
Same!!!!!
To be honest alot of people here do sound similar to that but there’s so many different Irish accents depending on where you go
I'm still shocked by how many historians and even pirate experts don't seem to know about the VERY PROMINENTLY PIRATE-SOUNDING Cornish accent, or West Country accent. You know, the accent of people on the coastline of England? NEAR THE OCEAN. *WHERE ALL THE PORTS ARE.*
And related to one of the prominent Newfoundland accents, Newfoundland having been partially settled by West Country people, and one of the recruiting grounds for pirates.
It really reminds me of Bristolian mixed with Cornish, which are the 2 places I've spent most of my life in.
last time I checked the coastline went aaalll the way around England, Wales and Scotland. But yeah whatever.
@@fiedelmina coastline towards the open ocean, in this case: europe is on one side, ireland is on the other, and you can't go much further north unless you plan to visit Norway, so there's really only south or southwest to go
@@thenixer209 which will take you to France or Spain....
I never realized how influential treasure island actually is
Yes, and Stevenson was influenced by Delfoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Also, Peter Pan was influenced by Treasure Island (Captain Hook).
Hey now, let’s give credit to Penny Rise who was the costume designer that’s created the whole look for the Pirates of the Caribbean. She even won an Oscar for it.
Read that as penny wise ngl
*Penny Rose
She didn't win an Oscar, she wasn't even nominated unfortunately
I just looked it up, and while she never won the oscar, she won the BAFTA three times for best costuming
Cool, Penny Rose.
Spouting falsehoods for attention
Missed the chance to call this the WI-Arrrrrrggghhhh’d interview.
Bonk! Go to corny jail!
😅 Thanks, wish I posted that!
@@GoBlueGirl78 yarg methinks this be a good idea matey
I appreciate that they put the thumbnail question at the beginning instead of hidden halfway through
3:05 Peg legs were common in sailors in general before the invention of the exploding shell. Before that, in naval warfare, shells where going through the wooden ships without exploding but causing a wave of splinters that was dealing the most damage to the crew. Such splinters would impale or break off limbs and a common solution was to amputate and replace with whatever prostatic could be improvised.
So the odds that someone had their leg ripped off by a splinter and then that same splinter is used as their new leg is higher than zero?
Bring him back to answer every question about pirates and piracy. My curiosity is insatiable and he's great at this; I couldn't stop watching.
Surprised Zheng Yi Sao wasn't mention in the bit about female pirates, given was literally one of the most successful pirates in history.
yeah i was really sad she wasnt mentioned
Well tbh, this is focused on a very specific time/ place. Other than a brief mention of Roman times, pirates have existed all over the world since people put to sea. Barbary, Somali, Indian ocean, malay, Chinese, etc ....
Americans only care about Carribean pirates, sadly.
very western centric approach. Roman pirates were mentioned but nothing about piracy elsewhere..
and her story is just mind-blowing. In pure numbers, the flotilla she commandeered. Comparing with her those Blackbeard guys looks much less impressive..
The fact that I didn't laugh even once at him saying seamen shows just how intriguing his storytelling is
i laughed reading that
My brother served in the U.S. Navy with a female with the last name "Swallows". I'm not joking. lol
@@BelenusValikonis I served with a man whose last name was Sample. You can't make this stuff up.
@@IanAlcorn I went to school with a dude named Michael Hawk.
Obviously we called him Mike. 😂
@@IanAlcorn
“Seaman Sample”
_Don’t laugh_
it is pretty funny that the straw hat is actually authentic. never thought about it, but it makes sense.
10:09 the captions say "land lovers" but the term he used was "landlubbers", which is a way to describe people who are not familiar with the sea and sailing.
Thanks, didn't know that! Useful piece of trivia for non-native speakers.
@@martavdz4972 actually I am a non-native speaker! but I played a videogame with pirates in them 😁
@@FMxEagle May I ask what game it was? Was it Assassin's creed black flag? Or maybe Captain Claw? Or something else?
@@hashirsibtain haha, no, shamefully enough it's World of Warcraft. In one of the first dungeons in the game, there is a group of pirates who have a boat inside a secret cave. One of the henchmen is Mr. Smite, which players have to fight. He has an iconic line during the fight, where he says: "You landlubbers are tougher than I thought!", before switching to a stronger weapon.
@@FMxEagle Nothing shameful about WoW... especially old WoW and especially compared with fastfood games like Assassin's Creed, lol. As another non-native speaker it taught me a lot too.
12:15 A 'retired pirate' during the golden age has some real 'fear an old man in a career where men die young' energy.
I mean vikings were basically that and it's how they got Normandy in France, the french didn't want more viking raids on their lands so they got retirees that would basically act as deterrents because *these are veterans*
@Brian-tn4cd Very true, but Vikings don't really fall into the so-called "Golden Age" of Piracy.
Does Angus have any audio books out because i could listen to him all day
This guy is fascinating, I could honestly listen to him talk about pirates all day.
Actually, the west (and east) country accent is similar to how they'd have spoken in the 16/1700s across a lot of England.
So many English pirates would have sounded like that.
That accent has survived in the most rural parts to the east and west of the country.
I could of listen to this guy for another 20 mins!
I'd love to hear about pirates from other parts of the world, I hear China had some amazing ones.
The most famous one is probably female one called Zheng Yi Sao or Ching Shih. She got a huge pirate fleet after her first husband died, was only captured when like half of it rebelled and she actually bargined with Chinese Imperial goverment. She got away with most of her loot and opened the casino while her second husbent got easy government position with decent salary.
Madame zheng was an icon fr @@dmitriyk.2890
Koxinga too
i need a lot more of this guy talking about pirates
i am an historian myself and the eyepatch "theory" is pretty much confirmed by a lot of sources we gathered over time. Yes they did use it to quickly adjust to the darkness of the lower decks because as he mentioned candles where a no go below deck
03:42 This is the moment Edward Teach turned into Blackbeard
Bravo Vince
I could listen to this man for hours. Very interesting information and very nice style of sharing it. Thank you!
I'm with you, I would love for older fashion like the tri-corners to come back!
I think one of the most shocking things I ever learned about pirates was what they ate.
Most people assume they ate hardtack, which is true, but they also ate something we’d fine even more disgusting than months old, hard biscuits:
Pirates made a stew called Salmagundi- which was basically a pot that they would keep boiling for months on end, and they would throw in whatever meat they found into said pot and keep the stew cooking.
And I don’t just mean cow, chicken, pig or fish. Turtles, seagulls and even rats were not off limits. Whatever meat was found- went into the pot.
I can't imagine there would be many nutrients in something boiled for months
@@justayoutuber1906… it’s obviously being eaten daily and replenished lol
This was also common in medieval times, it was called pottage.
Yeah, kids don't contemplate why the peas porridge is 9 days old, they just sing the rhyme.
It would be more unusual to find a culture that didn't have a perpetual stew in its culinary history than one that did.
Seafarers of all types loved sea turtles because they would live for weeks strapped to the deck while you ate other foods that quickly spoiled before slaughtering them.
I have heard tell of certain places in Europe that still continue this trend, and have had a continuous pottage on the boil for centuries.
@@justayoutuber1906 thats how cooking worked for poor people over most of history
Honestly, any time someone says that Batman's villains are theatrical and not very realistic, I just point to Cpt. Blackbeard, that guy was basically a 1700's version of TwoFace
13:17 slight correction, Howard Pyle did indeed do a lot of paintings in that style, but the illustrator of Treasure Island which really established the pirate look was N.C. Wyeth, father of the famous painter Andrew Wyeth
Fun fact. (Some) Swedish submariners today use eyepatches for pretty much the same reason pirates are rumored to have been, for night vision purposes.
That person asking who is tryna get drunk off rum while watching pirates of the Caribbean and they get an informative answer😂
Trying to?
I just realised what else is associated with the Caribbean.
I gotta go rewatch POTC rq.
This man spoke two sentences and I immediately love him. He sounds so pleasant!
I could listen to Angus for hours; I want to know everything there is about pirates now!
I don't give a crap about pirates, but I love this dudes vibe. this was actually quite entertaining.
The thing with eyepatches is that while yes, the Mythbusters did find it plausible to help with night vision, it also ruins your depth perception which is important when you are trying to fight someone. It also wouldn't really help with going below decks because lanterns exist, and it isn't that dark anyway with all the vents. It's like walking into a building on a sunny day, sure it takes a bit for your eyes to adjust but it doesn't warrant removing the use of one of your eyes to save the 60 seconds it takes to adjust
2:39 …so The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything are just all pirates?
I understood that reference😂😂😂
@paulgering7703 ahh the veggie tales!!!
“We arrrre the piiiiraates, who don’t do anything!”
Awesome! One of the best ‘Supports’ that I have heard lately! Well done, you pirate expert!
Another historical fact about pirates: their ships were often small to medium is size. The bigger the ship, the larger the crew, which required keeping them fed and hydrated. Fresh water and food spoiled fast in the tropical climate. Water would "turn" in the wooden barrels over time and become murky with bacteria. It was easier to keep rum or wine since the alcohol prevented bacteria, plus a buzzed crew tended to be less hostile toward the captain and living conditions.
A smaller ship also allowed pirates to sail over reefs and shallows, giving them the advantage over larger ships in that they could escape toward shore or hide out near shore and pounce on a passing ship. Smaller ships were more nimble too, allowing them to evade cannon fire and literally sail circles around a big merchant ship.
funny enough, I remember playing Patrician (3 or 4? not sure), and I found out pretty soon when trying to turn pirate that large "stronger" ships were a disaster against the very heavy cannon fire of the docks, it was like being a sitting duck. While small fast ships could often evade them altogether.
There was also Madame Shih, over in China, who commanded a whole pirate fleet, who was so feared and so powerful that when she saw divisions in her fleet start to form and threaten her position, she took part of it, attacked China itself, made a deal for pardoning herself and her husband, and then through him gave information to the government to take down the other half of her former fleet. She lived out her life as a merchant, her husband became a commander in the Chinese navy, and she’s one of the very few pirates to have lived to and died of old age
10:04 my jaw DROPPED I love that they got away with it there needs to be a movie about this
Sort of.. one of them died still in prison and most likely the other one too tho there is a chance 1 lived another decade or so I just can't remember which is which
@@drewtoler3135 Mary Read died in prison in 1721. Anne Bonny's fate is unknown. In recent years, a burial registry of Jamaica was found documenting the burial of an Anne Bonny in 1733, but although the time and place match, the registry doesn't specifically say she was a pirate, so we can't be positive if this is her or another woman with the same name.
Bonnie is in Black sails I'm pretty sure, as well as Jack Rackham, Charles Vane and several other historical figures. But the show is primarily about this one Captain whose name I can't recall.
@@no_nameyouknow The fictional Captain Flint (the show is a prequel to Treasure Island). I love that Black Sails incorporated real pirates like Anne Bonny, even if it wasn't 100% historically accurate.
They made a game, Assassins Creed, Black Flag (Historical events mixed with fiction) both, Mary and Anne appear accurately and their fates are historical. Mary dies in your arms in prison while you try to save her (super sad scene), and Anne sort of runs off with the main character and assists him before he retires, I would recomend you play the game, it's awesome.
I literally left a comment yesterday on the other historian video saying we need pirate support now. Thats crazy.
A pirates favorite vehicle of transportation is surprisingly not a ship, but the Toyota Yarrrris
15:25 You wouldn’t download a ship.
Britain still acting like it's the 1700's in regard to piracy.
19:24 - Mythbusters tested the notion that the eye patch was used to protect 1 eye for use in the dark and it definitely made a difference. While not proof that it did happen? It does suggestion that is could have.
I thought eye patches where to cover your eye hole after you’d lost it.
@gelraldoldo5152 that probably is another reason. They were looking into other reasons why a pirate would wear an eye patch. Not to say it was the only reason.
He should go into depth about some of these actual pirates I'd watch a 2 hr doc with him talking about it all
11:07 and with these words Angus Konstam started the Great Pirate era. There is treasure. YOU JUST HAVE TO FIND IT
10:54 and pirates wore very big straw hats
I didnt catch the direct OP quote and thought you were talking about our world right now, nd the words "Platinum Age of Piracy" will now live rent free in my head.
I loved playing Assassins Creed Black Flag when I was a kid. Because of that game I became obsessed with pirates and learning about them.
And it’s also cool to see that AC4 Black Flag had some historical accuracy about Pirates within their game as well
I expected a question how accurate is AC4 Black Flag
9:22 "friend" ???
I ran to the comments immediately hahahaha 💅
Black Sails is a wonderful show and a fantastic depiction of many of these real life pirates.
I was ready for him to mop the floor with every cliché but aside from (sadly) the fashion part, he basically confirmed everything. Even gay pirates!
It's the same with Viking fashion. They also wore colored clothing, and their ships were painted with various bright red, blue, green and yellow colored stripes, like sailing rainbows. Not very menacing in relation to how we view colors today.
he thoroughly debunked the pirate accent, though!
@@ThisIsMyFullNameSTOP!
Thats actually quite interesting how the accent was developed .
Fantastic expert to bring to the show. Thank you, Angus, for explaining all these fascinating facts!
Anyone who brings props to these is immediately cool in my book
If you listen to the "original pronunciation" developed for Shakespeare plays, in part by David Crystal, it does sound surprisingly like what we would think of as 'pirate talk'. And it is contemporary with the early days of British piracy.
my band just wore trifold hats at our last gig, and are gonna wear them for the video for our single Song For A Deadman. we're trying!
does your band have a website? any band that wears tricorns and has a song called "song for a dead man" is something I need to check out
Oooo what's your band called? Are you on Spotify? 👀
@@TeninoFox yes! we're called the jephries, thanks for asking! we've got a gig this friday, if you happen to be near anchorage alaska haha
So are we just going to gloss over when he said most pirates were teenage boys or in their early 20s....? It explains sooooo much! Even why anyone would join a pirate crew after their ship was captured. Pirates were just hormonal, impulsive children with underdeveloped brains all along 😂
That was middle-aged back then! The average person was lucky if they made 35 years old
@@buchanfoulsham6314 My understanding is that the low “average age” Is a misunderstanding. Child mortality rates were high, which means that the ‘mean’ age of death was low, but ‘mean’ age is not representative of the typical lifespan.
@@buchanfoulsham6314 Please stop spreading misinformation
If you look at history it makes a lot more sense when you remember a lot of the biggest decisions were made by slightly drunk 23 year olds.
To be fair British English was still mostly rhotic in the 16th 17th centuries, plus a lot of oceanic activity (like the Mayflower) was focused around the Southwest, so it's not entirely arbitrary that the pirate accent is portrayed as a West Country accent.
Yes. Bristol was then one of Britain’s key ports, especially when it came to trade with the Americas and Caribbean, where settlers inevitably were also highly rhotic.
Plus the very famous pirates Calico Jack,Henry Every,Edward Teach(Blackbeard)and Samuel Bellamy were all born in either Devon or Bristol.
@@Bella-fz9fyplus privateers like Drake and Hawkins.
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13:47
That is a man that loves his job
That is the type of man I aspire to be
The fact there was not a single question about Denuvo just disappoints me!
Yeah it would be funny.
16:29 Goldust was on board ships back then? What a time traveler he was to come wrestle in WWE in the 1990s then.
Shattering Dreams since 1720, lol
There has been pirate treasure found. The wreck of the Whydah off the coast of Cape Cod contained a large amount of gold an silver (4.5 tons) in coinage, jewelry, and bullion, some of which is on display in its museum.
I don't think that counts. "Lost in a shipwreck" and "buried where the X marks the spot" are very different things, and he specifically mentioned "buried treasure" in his answer.
I was waiting for him to mention the Whydah! The question didn’t specify buried treasure, just pirate treasure! Seeing the real artifacts in the museum, especially the ones they’re still desalinating, was one of my favorite museum experiences ever.
@@ericsmith5919 That's the thing though, the question specified treasure, not specifically buried (on land) treasure. There's a LOT of pirate treasure that has been found, just not in chests on islands, etc.
Regardless of the question, his first answer was "there wasnt much of that donr on purpose"
Refering to shipwrecks
It's amazing how these videos become must watch at 3am the night before an exam.
adding this dude to the blunt rotation
5:40 CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.
Something I learned that suprised me is that the "ARRRGHH" isn't pronounced how you think it is (if you're American like me). Many pirates had non-rhotic accents, so yelling "AARRGHHH" is basically just "AHHHHHH". Similar to how Harry Potter books use "erm" in place of "umm"
Seriously? That wasn't immediately obvious? OK then.
@slake9727 believe it or not this is a very common misconception
@@slake9727 Hollywood poisoned our minds
@reilandeubank I remember being very confused when I read those books when I was younger, I understood what it meant but I was like "who tf says"erm,"? So you're saying that's how they spell it but they pronounce it the same way we say "um,"?
Yes, but notably the Somerset accent which the modern "pirate accent" was based off of is very rhotic
10:53 I know a pirate with a straw hat 😏😁
So Luffy, and before that Shanks and Gol D Roger, is accurate! I actually cannot believe that. That is really neat!
Would definately like to see more of Angus on here, he makes the topic even more interesting. :)
this is a great video!!! thank you for inviting this guy on, i learned so much!
also yall need to chill lol this guy clearly specializes in western/caribbean piracy and that's still valid and informative. this is quite common in academia- people focus their studies on certain regions, just like how non-western historians might focus their studies on non-western cultures. other people specialize in other areas of history. instead of getting mad about this guy not mentioning your favorite pirate when his expertise focuses on an entirely different geographic scope, maybe watch a video about non-western pirates or ask WIRED if they can invite other pirate experts on here. some of yall seem incapable of enjoying anything if it fails to meet your arbitrary line in the sand.
Tell me this guy teaches a course on this. I’d take it in a heartbeat.