Life Under the Jolly Roger by Gabriel Kuhn

Author:Gabriel Kuhn
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2020-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

4.9. Safe Havens, Onshore Settlements, Pirate Utopias: Pirates on Land

In comparison to the most probably fictional Libertalia, an illustration of the pirate settlements whose existence is beyond doubt will better help explore their political dimensions. What is certain is that these settlements scared the authorities. As Linebaugh and Rediker state: “Some among the powerful worried that pirates might ‘set up a sort of Commonwealth’ in areas where no power would be able ‘to dispute with them.’ Colonial and metropolitan merchants and officials feared incipient separatism in Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Bermuda, North Carolina, the Bay of Campeche, and Honduras.”1 Snelders calls these areas “illegal autonomous zones”2 and “border areas of civilization”3—both apt descriptions and much more fitting than “quasi-states.”4

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