Topic: Writing the Pirate Code, 1660

From Blackbeard to Captain Jack Sparrow, from the most fearsome swashbucklers to the most inspiring leaders, the pirates pillaged and raided ships and settlements in the Caribbean and its surroundings for treasures and adventure. During the Golden Age of Piracy from the 1650s to 1730s, piracy ran just as rampant as the flow of gold from the Spanish galleons, ripe for attack. But despite all of the violence, pirates managed to pull off a democratic experiment older than America itself, the pirate code. Pirate codes served as codes of conduct for each ship, which were voted upon by every member of the crew and established set rules for crimes, punishment, liberties, and life on the ship. Delegates must channel their inner buccaneers to draft and pass their own pirate code before setting sail themselves to get their own cut of the pirates booty on a swashbuckling adventure.

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