Henri Caesar

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