The Pirate History Podcast
Summary: A podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, the real men and women that threatened the trade and stability of the Old World empires, the forces that led them to piracy and the myths and stories they inspired. Famous names like Captain Henry Morgan, Henry Avery, Charles Vane, Mary Reed, Anne Bonny, Black Bart Roberts, Ned Low, and Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach will rub elbows with Queens, Kings, Popes, rebellious monks, Caribbean Natives, African Slaves and notorious governors like Woodes Rogers. History, high seas adventure, myth and magic, voodoo, treachery, biography and freedom await.
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This is the story of two pairs of people, two real and two imaginary. A real author used a fake name to write the story of a fake pirate intertwined with a real pirate. Does that make sense? It will.
The frigate Charles II was among the best ships in English waters circa 1693. The Houblon Brothers commissioned her for The Spanish Expedition, and hired the very best mariners money - and food - could buy. Including Henry Every.
In Chapter nine of Treasure Island Jim Hawkins visits the ship Hispaniola and meets her captain.
The Nine Years War almost halted the piratical career of Henry Every before the Spanish Expedition even left port.
Jim Hawkins meets a tavern owner and sea cook named John Silver.
William III, William Phips, and William Dampier. And Henry Every.
The Carolina Colony is one of the most iconic locales in all of pirate mythology. Today we look at the founding of Carolina, her pirate roots, and the ties to Pirates of the Round and St. Mary's.
Before the Pirates of the Round turned to piracy some of them served as illegal slavers in a global criminal conspiracy. It was dirty business.
Mongols and Mughals and Pirates. Oh my!
The early years of the Nine Years War saw dozens of Privateering Commissions handed out to ships intended to raid West African slaver outposts. One of those ships, Amity under Captain Thomas Tew, chose to ignore that commission and sail instead for Adam Baldridge's pirate haven at St. Mary's.
In July 1690 the English fought a pitched naval engagement against France that would define the future of the Nine Years War and turn hundreds of Royal Navy men and privateers away from service and toward a life of piracy.
It's Captain Kidd y'all.
Adam Baldridge. Bachelor's Delight. Madagascar. St. Mary's. Cygnet. Libertalia. Flintlock pistols & pirate cutlasses. It's all coming together. We'll get to tricorn hats & parrots next time.
This Halloween we finish the story of the Salem Witch Trials.
The end of March, 1692, was a dark and terrifying time in Salem, Massachusetts. More and more girls came forward to accuse ever more people of witchcraft. We can't begin to cover all of them, but these are the events that typify the atmosphere in New England when witches - and the Devil - roamed free.
