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I finished my essay earlier this afeternoon. I just have to finish the annotated bibliography. I've never done one of these before. I have never written an essay with so many primary sources before either. I know that he wants us to list letters and so n indivisually... so what I've done is put them is an though theare 'articles in an edited collection,' which they kind of are, and then included a seperate entry for the collection itself, with a general annotation. I hope that will be okay, except I'm not sure if I'm doing my letters right. Ahh well, we'll find out, I guess! Anyway, doing it like this means that there are a *lot* of things to out in my bibliography! I have to finish putting in the things I used from the Spotswood letters, and then from the collection I drew from the most: the BPRO records for South carolina. I'm sure that I will have about 20 primary sources when I'm done. And then the secondary ones... oy.
While I'm on the topic (this is a pun ;p ), I have to say that dwriting this essays has raised a lot of questiosn for me, and I'm goign to list some of them here, for my own future reference.
First: charter colonies and dissenters. By 1700, the only charter colonies in N. Am. that weren't formed/run by religious dissenters were the Carolinas. they *seem* to have more problems with piracy. Is this true, and is religion related?
Second: A common general assumption in pirate scholarship is that theree was a lot less piracy during war times. is this true, or is piracy just less visible? I'm sure this is the case during King William's war. I think pirates moved then too, to the Indian Ocean, but they were still supported from the colonies, especially new York.
Thirdly: how did the change in attitude of their colonial conspirators affect pirates? Early in the golden age, they coud rely on friends on the port to help them unload good, but later on, not so much.... What did this mean for pirates? Did they become more liminal, and more hardcore, or what? Did the reasons for becoming pirates change?
Note, I'm really realy tired. I went to bed past three, but I couldn't sleep last night and I can't seem to now, so I thougt I would at least try to get this down, since it doens't matter too much if it is atrociously typed. I'm seriously having trouble loking at the screen. I'm going to go lie down again.
While I'm on the topic (this is a pun ;p ), I have to say that dwriting this essays has raised a lot of questiosn for me, and I'm goign to list some of them here, for my own future reference.
First: charter colonies and dissenters. By 1700, the only charter colonies in N. Am. that weren't formed/run by religious dissenters were the Carolinas. they *seem* to have more problems with piracy. Is this true, and is religion related?
Second: A common general assumption in pirate scholarship is that theree was a lot less piracy during war times. is this true, or is piracy just less visible? I'm sure this is the case during King William's war. I think pirates moved then too, to the Indian Ocean, but they were still supported from the colonies, especially new York.
Thirdly: how did the change in attitude of their colonial conspirators affect pirates? Early in the golden age, they coud rely on friends on the port to help them unload good, but later on, not so much.... What did this mean for pirates? Did they become more liminal, and more hardcore, or what? Did the reasons for becoming pirates change?
Note, I'm really realy tired. I went to bed past three, but I couldn't sleep last night and I can't seem to now, so I thougt I would at least try to get this down, since it doens't matter too much if it is atrociously typed. I'm seriously having trouble loking at the screen. I'm going to go lie down again.
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“First: charter colonies and dissenters. By 1700, the only charter colonies in N. Am. that weren't formed/run by religious dissenters were the Carolinas. they *seem* to have more problems with piracy. Is this true, and is religion related?”
Other reasons that come to mind:
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Also, the Puritans may have been religious, but they (and the Quakers) were pretty hardcore! traders. They had that whole protestant work ethic going for them too... They were *good* at it :) The Quakers were pacificts, though, which, I think, partly explains why their colonies were less inclined to involve themselves with pirates, or even legitimate privateers.
Geography: This is part of it, yes. Tha Carolinas have allll kinds of weird hid-y places, esp. North carolina on the outerbanks.
Record-keeping: Again possible, but I haven't looked ;)
Corruption and Fraud_ see above re-trade... But one of the reasons that the Carolinas had crappy trade was because they had a weak government. The people who owned the colony lived in England, and really didn't have enough power over their agents.
Recruitment: no, pirates were't generally recruited on land ;)