Meet the Pirates
Shiver me Timbers!Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" " from 1650 to 1730 " the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage Bluebeard that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often saved from the gallows by supportive crowds. Why? What did they see that we can't? In his …