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Content notes for "The Democratic Armada of the Caribbean"
These are the content notes for "The Democratic Armada of the Caribbean."
The Caribbean includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and others border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region. The region is south-east of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and north of South America.
Spirit Island lies between Dominica and Martinique in the Lesser Antilles islands, a sacred place to the Kalinago / Carib People.
Read the history and the territorial evolution of the Caribbean. See a timeline of local-Caribbean (which differs somewhat from Peculiar-Caribbean) events.
In 1700 Spain controlled most of the mainland portions of North America, Central America, and South America that surround the Caribbean as well as most of the largest islands of the Caribbean. Other players included Denmark, the Dutch Republic, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of France.
The Golden Age of Piracy spanned roughly the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It included the Buccaneer Period (~1650-1680), the Pirate Round (1690s), and the post-Spanish Succession period (1715-1726).
Pirate havens are ports or harbors that offer a safe place for pirates to repair their vessels, resupply, recruit, spend their plunder, avoid capture, and/or lie in wait for merchant ships to pass by. Although vilified by more conventional societies, pirate havens were often more progressive in some regards than other societies of the time -- more violent (in a world that was often violent elsewhere as well) but more free. Particular to this setting, more revolts and revolutions succeeded sooner, which resulted in free pirate islands gaining independence and banning slavery at earlier dates.
Spanish Main and Caribbean Pirate Havens circa 1670 Map
Barataria Bay is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico, about 15 miles (24 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States. It is separated from the gulf by two barrier islands, Grand Isle and Grand Terre. It holds Manila Village and Saint Malo. In P-Earth, people brought rock and dirt from the mainland to build up the islands in Barataria Bay, and they cultivated oyster beds and other sea features to resist violent storms, which has allowed them to survive despite hurricanes.
Isla de Providencia, historically Old Providence, widely known as Providencia or Providence, is a mountainous Caribbean island that belongs to the Colombian department of Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the municipality of Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands, lying midway between Costa Rica and Jamaica.
The Cayman Islands include the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. They are also known as Los Lagartos ("the alligators") or Las Tortugas ("the turtles"). The locals are prone to "wrecking" wherein they lure ships to their doom. George Town is the capital and largest city in the Cayman Islands, located on Grand Cayman.
Note that in P-Caribbean, there are still American crocodiles (preferring brackish water) and Cuban crocodiles (preferring fresh water) in the Caymans, along with even larger species not found in local-Caribbean, plus various sea turtles.
In P-Caribbean, a population of Taino escaped and settled elsewhere, remaining a small but free people, some of whom later became pirates. In 1803, attempts to enslave free passengers of color from ships docking in Cuba sparked a rebellion that ended with Cuba becoming a free pirate island in 1804.
During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Main referred to the parts of the Spanish Empire that were on the mainland of the Americas and had coastlines on the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico. The term was used to distinguish those regions from the numerous islands Spain controlled in the Caribbean, which were known as the Spanish West Indies.
Xcalak is a village of 375 inhabitants in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, Quintana Roo, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.
The United States of America is a country primarily located in North America. It has a fraught history. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Rhode Island is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Its history includes some interesting overlap with pirates, privateers, and smugglers. It was even nicknamed "Rogue Island."
Pennsylvania (which means "Penn's forest country") is a landlocked state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. Pennsylvania borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio and the Ohio River to its west, Lake Erie and New York to its north, the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east, and the Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest. Its long history includes Blackbeard. Philadelphia, like many cities throughout the Atlantic world, encountered a new threat in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries from pirates who raided the numerous merchant vessels in the region.
Tinicum Township has the distinction of being the site of the first recorded European settlement in Pennsylvania.
Virginia is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. It was the bridgehead of the whole American invasion by Europeans.
Smith Island is one of the Virginia Barrier Islands located adjacent to the southern end of the Eastern Shore of Virginia in Northampton County near Cape Charles. Legendary pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, sometimes used Smith Island as a stopover to careen his ships.
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.[8][9] It borders Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east, and the national capital of Washington, D.C. to the southwest. Tylerton is an unincorporated community located on Smith Island in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Straits of Florida and Cuba to the south. It has messy history.
Louisiana is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Its history involved changing hands multiple times.
Texas is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Its history has been violent. The Galveston area was a main port for pirates in the late 1800s through the early 1900s. Pirate attacks had been greatly reduced in most parts of the world by this time, but the early history of Galveston is rich with pirates legends.
Pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy were typically organized criminals. As well as having crew members assigned certain duties, pirates found a way to reduce conflict among themselves and maximize profits. They used a democratic system, spelled out by written "articles of agreement," to limit the captain's power and to keep order on board the ship. A pirate code was a code of conduct for governing ships of pirates, notably between the 17th and 18th centuries. Blackbeard and Ben Franklin deserve equal billing for founding democracy in the United States and New World.
The first Africans were brought to the Western Hemisphere primarily by Portuguese and Spanish slave ships. They were delivered to colonies in Brazil, Central America, and the Caribbean islands throughout the 1500's and 1600's. English raiders and pirates began stealing people from Portuguese slave ships in the 1560's and selling then to Spanish buyers in the Caribbean. The 18th-century pirates sowed havoc among human traffickers from Europe, burning and exploding their ships and ports.
One noteworthy characteristic of pirate life is that, even with the beginnings of the slave trade during the Golden Age of Piracy (1650s-1730s), about 30% of pirates were black. Pirate ships became places where transgressors, such as former slaves, sought sanctuary from the restrictions of life ashore.
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (gens de couleur libres in French or gente de color libre in Spanish) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved. However, the term also applied to people born free who were primarily of black African descent with little mixture. They constituted a third caste between white owners and black slaves, and societies with this structure tended to be more progressive than other binary ones at the time.
A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque in French) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer, licensing international military operations against a specified enemy as reprisal for a previous attack or injury. Essentially privateers made up a mercenary navy.
Quakers have quoted Matthew 18:20 to support this: "Where two or three meet together in my name, there [is God] in the midst of them." Therefore, theoretically, meeting for worship may be held anywhere.
The Caribbean includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and others border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region. The region is south-east of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and north of South America.
Spirit Island lies between Dominica and Martinique in the Lesser Antilles islands, a sacred place to the Kalinago / Carib People.
Read the history and the territorial evolution of the Caribbean. See a timeline of local-Caribbean (which differs somewhat from Peculiar-Caribbean) events.
In 1700 Spain controlled most of the mainland portions of North America, Central America, and South America that surround the Caribbean as well as most of the largest islands of the Caribbean. Other players included Denmark, the Dutch Republic, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of France.
The Golden Age of Piracy spanned roughly the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It included the Buccaneer Period (~1650-1680), the Pirate Round (1690s), and the post-Spanish Succession period (1715-1726).
Pirate havens are ports or harbors that offer a safe place for pirates to repair their vessels, resupply, recruit, spend their plunder, avoid capture, and/or lie in wait for merchant ships to pass by. Although vilified by more conventional societies, pirate havens were often more progressive in some regards than other societies of the time -- more violent (in a world that was often violent elsewhere as well) but more free. Particular to this setting, more revolts and revolutions succeeded sooner, which resulted in free pirate islands gaining independence and banning slavery at earlier dates.
Spanish Main and Caribbean Pirate Havens circa 1670 Map
Barataria Bay is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico, about 15 miles (24 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States. It is separated from the gulf by two barrier islands, Grand Isle and Grand Terre. It holds Manila Village and Saint Malo. In P-Earth, people brought rock and dirt from the mainland to build up the islands in Barataria Bay, and they cultivated oyster beds and other sea features to resist violent storms, which has allowed them to survive despite hurricanes.
Isla de Providencia, historically Old Providence, widely known as Providencia or Providence, is a mountainous Caribbean island that belongs to the Colombian department of Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the municipality of Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands, lying midway between Costa Rica and Jamaica.
The Cayman Islands include the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. They are also known as Los Lagartos ("the alligators") or Las Tortugas ("the turtles"). The locals are prone to "wrecking" wherein they lure ships to their doom. George Town is the capital and largest city in the Cayman Islands, located on Grand Cayman.
Note that in P-Caribbean, there are still American crocodiles (preferring brackish water) and Cuban crocodiles (preferring fresh water) in the Caymans, along with even larger species not found in local-Caribbean, plus various sea turtles.
In P-Caribbean, a population of Taino escaped and settled elsewhere, remaining a small but free people, some of whom later became pirates. In 1803, attempts to enslave free passengers of color from ships docking in Cuba sparked a rebellion that ended with Cuba becoming a free pirate island in 1804.
During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Main referred to the parts of the Spanish Empire that were on the mainland of the Americas and had coastlines on the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico. The term was used to distinguish those regions from the numerous islands Spain controlled in the Caribbean, which were known as the Spanish West Indies.
Xcalak is a village of 375 inhabitants in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, Quintana Roo, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.
The United States of America is a country primarily located in North America. It has a fraught history. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Rhode Island is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Its history includes some interesting overlap with pirates, privateers, and smugglers. It was even nicknamed "Rogue Island."
Pennsylvania (which means "Penn's forest country") is a landlocked state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. Pennsylvania borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio and the Ohio River to its west, Lake Erie and New York to its north, the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east, and the Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest. Its long history includes Blackbeard. Philadelphia, like many cities throughout the Atlantic world, encountered a new threat in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries from pirates who raided the numerous merchant vessels in the region.
Tinicum Township has the distinction of being the site of the first recorded European settlement in Pennsylvania.
Virginia is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. It was the bridgehead of the whole American invasion by Europeans.
Smith Island is one of the Virginia Barrier Islands located adjacent to the southern end of the Eastern Shore of Virginia in Northampton County near Cape Charles. Legendary pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, sometimes used Smith Island as a stopover to careen his ships.
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.[8][9] It borders Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east, and the national capital of Washington, D.C. to the southwest. Tylerton is an unincorporated community located on Smith Island in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Straits of Florida and Cuba to the south. It has messy history.
Louisiana is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Its history involved changing hands multiple times.
Texas is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest. Its history has been violent. The Galveston area was a main port for pirates in the late 1800s through the early 1900s. Pirate attacks had been greatly reduced in most parts of the world by this time, but the early history of Galveston is rich with pirates legends.
Pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy were typically organized criminals. As well as having crew members assigned certain duties, pirates found a way to reduce conflict among themselves and maximize profits. They used a democratic system, spelled out by written "articles of agreement," to limit the captain's power and to keep order on board the ship. A pirate code was a code of conduct for governing ships of pirates, notably between the 17th and 18th centuries. Blackbeard and Ben Franklin deserve equal billing for founding democracy in the United States and New World.
The first Africans were brought to the Western Hemisphere primarily by Portuguese and Spanish slave ships. They were delivered to colonies in Brazil, Central America, and the Caribbean islands throughout the 1500's and 1600's. English raiders and pirates began stealing people from Portuguese slave ships in the 1560's and selling then to Spanish buyers in the Caribbean. The 18th-century pirates sowed havoc among human traffickers from Europe, burning and exploding their ships and ports.
One noteworthy characteristic of pirate life is that, even with the beginnings of the slave trade during the Golden Age of Piracy (1650s-1730s), about 30% of pirates were black. Pirate ships became places where transgressors, such as former slaves, sought sanctuary from the restrictions of life ashore.
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (gens de couleur libres in French or gente de color libre in Spanish) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved. However, the term also applied to people born free who were primarily of black African descent with little mixture. They constituted a third caste between white owners and black slaves, and societies with this structure tended to be more progressive than other binary ones at the time.
A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque in French) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer, licensing international military operations against a specified enemy as reprisal for a previous attack or injury. Essentially privateers made up a mercenary navy.
Quakers have quoted Matthew 18:20 to support this: "Where two or three meet together in my name, there [is God] in the midst of them." Therefore, theoretically, meeting for worship may be held anywhere.