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Contents Summary'Gold' Roger, real name Gol D. Roger, was a legendary pirate who lived twenty-two years ago. As a member of the Family of D bloodline, Roger conquered the Grand Line, while amassing a vast fortune, as he became known as the King of the Pirates. But Roger knew that he would soon die from an incurable disease, and disbanded his crew before turning himself in to be executed, while asking to care for his son.The World Government intended to have Roger be publicly executed to discourage piracy, but his last words has the opposite impact. He stated that the next King of the Pirates would be the one who finds the concealed island of Raftel and acquires his legendary treasure One Piece. This started a new age of piracy.His bounty prior to his death was 5,564,800,000.Powers and Stats: 6-BName: Gol D.
One of the most famous corsairs of the Golden Age of PiracyThe oldest known literary mention of a 'Golden Age' of piracy is from 1894, when the English wrote about 'what appears to have been the golden age of piracy up to the last decade of the 17th century.' Powell uses the phrase while reviewing 's A New and Exact History of Jamaica, then over 150 years old, and refers mostly to such 1660s events as 's attacks on and Portobelo and 's famous escape. Powell uses the phrase only once.In 1897, a more systematic use of the phrase 'Golden Age of Piracy' was introduced by historian, who wrote: 'At no other time in the world's history has the business of piracy thriven so greatly as in the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth. Its golden age may be said to have extended from about 1650 to about 1720.' Fiske included the activities of the and East Asian pirates in this 'Golden Age,' noting that 'as these Mussulman pirates and those of Eastern Asia were as busily at work in the seventeenth century as at any other time, their case does not impair my statement that the age of the buccaneers was the Golden Age of piracy.'
Pirate historians of the first half of the 20th century occasionally adopted Fiske's term 'Golden Age,' without necessarily following his beginning and ending dates for it. The most expansive definition of an age of piracy was that of Patrick Pringle, who wrote in 1951 that 'the most flourishing era in the history of piracy. Began in the reign of and ended in the second decade of the eighteenth century.' This idea starkly contradicted Fiske, who had hotly denied that such Elizabethan figures as were pirates. Trend toward narrow definitionsOf recent definitions, Pringle appears to have the widest range, an exception to an overall trend among historians from 1909 until the 1990s, toward narrowing the Golden Age. As early as 1924, Philip Gosse described piracy as being at its height 'from 1680 until 1730.' In his highly popular 1978 book The Pirates for TimeLife's The Seafarers series, Douglas Botting defined the Golden Age as lasting 'barely 30 years, starting at the close of the 17th Century and ending in the first quarter of the 18th.'
Botting's definition was closely followed by Frank Sherry in 1986. In a 1989 academic article, Professor defined the Golden Age as lasting only from 1716 to 1726. In 1998, reckoned the era as lasting from 1700 until 1730.Perhaps the ultimate step in restricting the Golden Age was in Konstam's 2005 The History of Pirates, in which he retreated from his own earlier definition, called a 1690–1730 definition of the Golden Age 'generous,' and concluded that 'The worst of these pirate excesses was limited to an eight-year period, from 1714 until 1722, so the true Golden Age cannot even be called a 'golden decade.' ' Recent countertrend toward broader meaning, in his influential 1994 work Under the Black Flag, defined the 'great age of piracy' as lasting from the 1650s to around 1725, very close to Fiske's definition of the Golden Age.Rediker, in 2004, described the most complex definition of the Golden Age to date. Main article:Piracy arose out of, and mirrored on a smaller scale, the conflicts over trade and colonization among the rival European powers of the time, including the empires of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and France. Most of these pirates were of Welsh, English, Dutch, Irish and French origin.
Many pirates came from poorer urban areas in search of a way to make money and reprieve. London especially was known for high unemployment, crowding, and poverty which would drive people to piracy. Piracy also offered power and quick riches.Buccaneering period, c. Main article:Historians, such as John Fiske, mark the beginning of the Golden Age of Piracy at around 1650, when the end of the allowed European countries to resume the development of their colonial empires.
This involved considerable seaborne trade, and a general economic improvement: there was money to be made—or stolen—and much of it traveled by ship.French buccaneers had established themselves on northern as early as 1625, but lived at first mostly as hunters rather than robbers; their transition to full-time piracy was gradual and motivated in part by Spanish efforts to wipe out both the buccaneers and the prey animals on which they depended. The buccaneers' migration from Hispaniola's mainland to the more defensible offshore island of limited their resources and accelerated their piratical raids. According to, a buccaneer and historian who remains a major source on this period, the Tortuga buccaneer pioneered the settlers' attacks on making the return voyage to Spain.The growth of buccaneering on Tortuga was augmented by the English capture of Jamaica from Spain in 1655.
The early English governors of Jamaica freely granted to Tortuga buccaneers and to their own countrymen, while the growth of provided these raiders with a far more profitable and enjoyable place to sell their booty. In the 1660s, the new French governor of Tortuga, Bertrand d'Ogeron, similarly provided privateering commissions both to his own colonists and to English cutthroats from Port Royal.
These conditions brought Caribbean buccaneering to its zenith.Pirate Round, c. Cornelis Hendricksz Vroom, Spanish Men-of-War Engaging Barbary Corsairs, 1615.The Barbary pirates were pirates and that operated from the (the ') ports of, and, preying on shipping in the western from the time of the as well as on ships on their way to Asia around Africa until the early 19th century.
The coastal villages and towns of, and were frequently attacked by them, and long stretches of the Italian and Spanish coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants; since the 17th century, Barbary pirates occasionally entered the Atlantic and struck as far north as. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as between the 16th and 19th centuries.Barbary pirates flourished in the early 17th century as new sailing rigs by enabled North African raiders, for the first time, to brave the Atlantic as well as Mediterranean waters. More than 20,000 captives were said to be imprisoned in Algiers alone. The rich were allowed to redeem themselves, but the poor were condemned to slavery. Their masters would on occasion allow them to secure freedom by professing.
Many people of good social position – Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and English travelers in the south – were captives for a time.In 1627, was subject to raids known as the. Is said to have taken 400 prisoners; 242 of the captives were later sold into slavery on the. The pirates took only young people and those in good physical condition. All those offering resistance were killed, and the old people were gathered into a church, which was set on fire. Among those captured was, who was ransomed the next year and, upon returning to Iceland, wrote a about his experience.
Another famous captive from that raid was. The sack of is known in the as.One of the stereotypical features of a pirate in popular culture, the, dates back to the pirate, who wore it after losing an eye in battle in the 18th century.Whilst the Golden Age of European and American pirates is generally considered to have ended between 1710 and 1730, the prosperity of the Barbary pirates continued until the early 19th century.
Unlike the European powers, the young United States refused to pay tribute to the Barbary states and responded with the and the against North Africa, when the Barbary pirates captured and enslaved American sailors. Although the U.S. Had only limited success in these wars, France and Great Britain, with their more powerful navies, soon followed suit and stamped out the Barbary raiders. CorsairsCorsairs were pirates who mainly operated in the Mediterranean Sea. Christian corsairs operated mostly around Italy and Malta.
They also mainly used oar-powered boats called galleys and would descend on their victims for ransom. If their victims couldn't produce the ransom, they were sold into slavery. BuccaneersBuccaneers operated mainly in the Caribbean. They originated in Tortuga around the 17th century as hunters, but became 'pirates' when government officials would pay groups of men to attack and loot Spanish ships. After a while, however, the raids got out of control, and buccaneers began attacking any ship worth value, enemy or not. PrivateersPrivateers were not Navy, but privately owned rascals.
They usually only operated in times of war and were given 'letters of marque' by Admirals, which gave them authority to raid enemy ships, keeping them exempt from piracy charges. DeclineBy the early 18th century, tolerance for privateers was wearing thin in all nations. After the was signed, the excess of trained sailors without employment was both a blessing and a curse for all pirates. Initially, the surplus of men had caused the number of pirates to multiply significantly.
This inevitably led to the pillaging of more ships, which put a greater strain on trade for all European nations. In response, European nations bolstered their own navies to offer greater protection for merchants and to hunt down pirates.
The excess of skilled sailors meant there was a large pool that could be recruited into national navies as well.Piracy was clearly on a strong decline by 1720. The Golden Age of Piracy did not last the decade.The events of the latter half of 1718 represent a turning point in the history of piracy in the New World. Without a safe base and with growing pressure from naval forces, the rovers lost their momentum.
The lure of the Spanish treasures had faded, and the hunters gradually became the hunted. By early 1719, the remaining pirates were on the run.
Most of them headed for West Africa, seizing poorly defended. Effect on popular cultureAlthough some of the details are often misremembered, the of the Golden Age of Piracy can hardly be overstated. (1724) by is the prime source for the biographies of many well known pirates of the Golden Age, providing an extensive account of the period. In giving an almost mythical status to the more colourful characters such as the notorious English pirates and, it is likely that the author used considerable licence in his accounts of pirate conversations. In 2002, English naval historian wrote an introduction to Johnson's 1724 book, stating: 'it has been said, and there seems no reason to question this, that Captain Johnson created the modern conception of pirates.' Johnson's book would influence the pirate literature of.
Such literary works as Stevenson's and Barrie's, while romanticized, drew heavily on pirates and piracy for their plots.Various claims and speculation about their overall image, attire, fashion, dress code, etc. Have been made and contributed to their fanciful mystery and lore. For example, men wore earrings as the value of the gold or silver earring was meant to pay for their burial if they were lost at sea and their body washed ashore.
They were also worn for superstitious reasons, believing the precious metals had magical healing powers.More recently, even less accurate depictions of historical-era pirates ( e.g., ) have advanced to the forefront. However, these phenomena have only served to advance the romantic image of piracy and its treasure-burying in popular culture.
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