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Feb 17, 2025
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HIST 2208 - Privateers, Buccaneers, and Pirates of the Caribbean, 1523-1726
The investigation of piracy in the Caribbean from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The course begins with the sixteenth-century French and English privateers, such as Sir Francis Drake, who both participated in the Atlantic African Slave Trade and raided the Spanish Colonies. Then it examines the buccaneer age, when crews based at Port Royal, Jamaica and Petit-Goâve, Haiti raided Spanish settlements from the Caribbean to the Pacific Coast. It ends with the Golden Age of Caribbean Piracy in the first few decades of the eighteenth century with crews who were beholden to no nation, such as those of Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet. In conjunction with attending class lectures and discussions, students read textbook and primary source readings, take quizzes and exams, and complete written assignments. Meets non-Western requirement.
Credit Hours: (3)
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