Though the reports of piracy continued to show the moral side all through the century, such as drunkenness and swearing, because clearly those problems continue to be an issue in the colonies.14 The evidence of piracy and pirates" bad behavior has been often mentioned in newspapers throughout the colonies, but they do not give details of crimes such as murder and theft they just simply state an act of piracy was committed, but with smaller moral crime with details and explanation of what occurred. In colonies like Massachusetts Bay, these newspaper articles were believed to protect the people&...

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