1. The Pirates of Colonial America
They were following the very definition of crime with their acts of mutiny, destruction, and robbery.4 Pirates were a cause of chaos in Maritime History during the beginning of America, especially in the New England colonies, and religious authority used social and moral reasons to stop them. ... Many times those convicted of these sinful crimes were pirates.12 In these religious colonies, they were often successful in stopping piracy, crimes, and keeping social order better than the other colonies because of their strict regulations.13 Later in the eighteenth century however, the economi...
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