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Why do we think pirates are “cool”?. Francis Drake. First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe For the Spanish “El Draque” = “The Dragon”. Drake’s 1585 voyage to the Caribbean. Francis Drake Attacks Santo Domingo, 1585. John Hawkins: Pirate, patriot or businessman?.
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Francis Drake • First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe • For the Spanish “El Draque” = “The Dragon”
John Hawkins: Pirate, patriot or businessman? • 1555 sailed for Caribbean via Sierra Leone • Attacked Portuguese ship • Took their 300 slaves to the Caribbean
The English and French Come to the Lesser Antilles: 1620s and 1630s
Tobacco’s decline and the transformation of the Lesser Antilles
Tobacco and Indentured Servants in the Lesser Antilles, 1600s
“Brothers of the Coast”: Western Santo Domingo, ca. 1605 Tortuga Léogane Ile à Vaches
Future Boucan Boucanier
Illustration from Exquemelin (1646-1707?) Buccaneers of America