Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Answer the following question in an interpretative essay.
Write three complete body paragraphs that substantiate your argument and include sufficient evidence from the book to prove your thesis.
On the evening before his/her execution, a captured pirate is asked by a pastor to write a confession so that she/he can be absolved of her/his sins before dying. Defiantly, the pirate discusses the superiority of buccaneer societies instead.
How would this pirate justify his/her rejection of the Atlantic (European and colonial) world around him/her? What pirate values would she/he favor instead?
Paragraph 1: Explain one pirate value & the experience pirates had before becoming a buccaneer that made them appreciate this value using evidence from the book
Paragraph 2: Explain a second pirate value & the experience pirates had before becoming a buccaneer that made them appreciate this value using evidence from the book
Paragraph 3: Explain a third pirate value & the experience pirates had before becoming a buccaneer that made them appreciate this value using evidence from the book0