The men who sailed with Morgan were known as buccaneers. They were French and English men who had gone native on Hispaniola, the island now occupied by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and on Tortuga, a tiny island to the north. Their name came from a wooden frame, called a boucan by the Carib Indians, on which they smoked wild boar and cattle. They were the ones who developed the first pirate code of ethics, the Custom of the Coast, at the core of which was an explicit agreement about the sharing of booty, power, and responsibility called a chasse partie.
Before attacking Panama, for instance, the buccaneers stipulated that Morgan was to get a hundredth part of the loot, with the rest divided into shares for the more than two thousand men in the expedition: each captain under Morgan was to get eight shares, and each man one share.
They also allocated set-asides for professionals two hundred pesos for each surgeon, a hundred for each carpenter , incentive payments fifty to anyone who captured a Spanish flag, five to anyone who threw a grenade into a fort , and compensations for injury a hundred for a lost eye, fifteen hundred for two legs. Leeson is at pains to show the articles as a rational choice, enabling pirates to create a voluntary association that was stable and orderly.
By setting terms in advance, punishing embezzlement harshly, and keeping the pay gap between captain and men low, the articles reduced conflict over property claims. And by rewarding special achievements and providing health insurance they encouraged enthusiasm and risk-taking. The results were impressive. Articles also made it harder for leaders to cheat, because their public nature enabled every pirate to tell if a rule had been broken.
When Morgan campaigned against the Spanish in and , he was both elected by the buccaneers and commissioned by the Jamaican governor. But when he returned to the Caribbean, in , he had to choose sides. Planters now dominated Jamaican society, and thought the cost of disrupted shipping not worth the occasional benefits of poaching Spanish currency.
When piracy next broke out, it was in another part of the world. In May, , a group of English sailors in a Spanish port grew tired of waiting for overdue wages. There his crew took two rich prizes—a ship belonging to a wealthy Muslim merchant and another belonging to Aurangzeb, the Grand Moghul of India. Still, the dynamics of geography and trade that attracted men like Every to the Horn of Africa remain, and the opening of the Suez Canal has probably made the pickings even richer.
Somali pirates prowl the same waters today. A decade and a half after Every and Kidd, piracy rose once more, incited by a peace that made killing Spaniards illegal again and by a hurricane that spilled Spanish gold off the coast of Florida, like so much blood into a shark tank.
From to , between one and two thousand pirates, based mainly in the Bahamas and operating in the Caribbean and off the coasts of North America and West Africa, took nearly two and a half thousand merchant vessels. For more than a decade, English shipping stopped growing. An eighteenth-century historian estimated the damage as equal to that caused by Spain and France during the thirteen-year War of Spanish Succession. Topic Archived. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts.
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