Class Notes
Blog Post
- Have other native groups risen against the government?
- Was the article showing a negative light on the people? Yes, showing a negative bias against the Mabuchi.
Pirates and Privateers
- What do we know about piracy? How do we know it?
- Who is a pirate? Who is a privateer?
- Why do people become pirates?
- What effects does piracy have on the Iberian colonial empire?
Notes
- Silver silk and goods are main exports being traded
- Alliances to help prevent ships from being unprotected
- People are being heavily taxed but question if they are protected from pirates.
- Pirates had trouble when they could legally steal.
- Spanish are upset because they are being pirated
- Pirate- lord less Bridget who pirates anything
- Privateer- someone who is paid by a monarch
- Social banditry- social crime lower class resistance
- What is Marcus Rediker’s argument- anyone who was in illicit activity is considered a pirate.
- Spanish trade routes were used against them, Spanish were being stolen from and sold to natives.
- People became pirates because of wealth and greed.
- Living conditions of pirates was not well they had no home for themselves.
- Pirates would spend most of their income on the ports mainly on alcohol.
- MR argument- similarities between pirates and sailors
- Pirates threat to colonial rule
- War time people would become sailors because there was work and opportunity
- If you were a slave or lower-class worker you can become a pirate.
- 1561 Spanish establish fleet system