I have to laugh at the romanticizing of these pirates. They were blood-curdling maniac terrorists. They slaughtered entire ships withut thinking about it, terrorized towns and entire regions, and lived lives that are more akin to gangs of meth addicts cutting loose with automatic weapons than anything even remotely civilized.
Think about having a Disney cartoon about the tender side of the Aurora killer 300 years from now, and you’ll get my drift, matey.
You don’t have to go 300 years, backwards or forwards.
Bought a Toyota lately? Drunk some German riesling? I know folks who’ve adopted from Vietnam, and raved about the tourist sites they saw while there.
And so it goes, and so it goes...
Morgan sailed under letters of marque issued by the Governor of Jamaica while England was at war with Spain. After the sack of Panama he was arrested and sent to England for trial, but they instead knighted him and sent him back to Jamaica as Lieutenant Governor. His case was different than, say, a Blackbeard.