Piracy

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/5/2021
  

  The Buccaneers Embody Tampa’s Love of Pirates. Is that a Problem?

  by Jamie L.H. Goodall

    "Perhaps time has dulled us to the atrocities committed by these 17th and 18th century outlaws. Or perhaps it’s the fact that if pirates of the Golden Age were bloodthirsty, so too were the nations who opposed them."

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• SOURCE: Independent
  11/19/2020
  

  Female Pirate Lovers Whose Story was Ignored by Male Historians Immortalized with Statue

  A new memorial recognizes the relationship of pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read and secures their place in the history of piracy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2020
  

  Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Review)

  An attack by the pirate Henry Every on a ship owned by the Grand Mughal of India jeopardized the toehold the British East India Company had gained in India. The British government's response helped launch imperial rule. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  The Pandemic Is Not an Excuse to Exploit Writers

  by Douglas Preston

  Internet Archive’s “National Emergency Library” is meant to benefit consumers during the coronavirus crisis. Authors everywhere are losing.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/24/2020
  

  In Blackbeard Pirate Ship Case, Supreme Court Scuttles Copyright Claims

  Ruling unanimously, the U.S. Supreme Court said that a videographer who spent two decades documenting the salvaging of Blackbeard's ship cannot sue the state of North Carolina in federal court for using his videos without his permission.