This week's open thread theme focus on the very little known history of black pirates and their role in adventures on the high seas. Concluding this series, I will talk about one the most notorious pirates that ever existed, Diego Grillo or in many incarnations Diego El Mulatto. Diego el Mulato is the name given to several pirates who were active in the Caribbean during … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Black Pirates
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Friday Open Thread: Black Pirates
This week's open thread highlighted black pirates and their plight. Today I will highlight several unknown black pirates. In 1731 Juan Andres (Andresote) was the leader of some runaway slaves and Indians. These villains plundered and murdered along the coast of Venezuela. Authorities assumed he had died when two years later the attacks ceased. In reality, he merely moved to … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Pirates
Thursday Open Thread: Black Pirates
John Julian (c. 1701 – 26 March 1733, aged 32) was the first recorded black pirate to operate in the New World, as the pilot of the ship Whydah. Julian was a half-blood Miskito Indian who joined Samuel Bellamy early in his brief career. He became a pilot for the Whydah at 16 years old, an important assignment that would require him to use his vast navigational skills to guide … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Black Pirates
Monday Open Thread: Black Pirates
This week's open threads will focus on a rarely known topic, black pirates. Some estimate that nearly 5,000 pirates hunted prey between 1715 and 1726. Of that number, about twenty-five to thirty percent came from the cimarrons, black slaves who ran from their Spanish masters. Other blacks joined after pirates attacked slave ships. For example, when Sam Bellany and his … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Black Pirates