Under Jolly Roger This is about Early American Piracy

Under Jolly Roger
This term I would like to write my essay on the subject: American piracy. In my opinion pirates played an imporatant role in the early American settlers life. They made discoveries of distant lands, were freedom fighters and sometimes even poets or gentlemen.
For most people the word pirate simply means one who robs or plunders on the sea. Now piracy is only a term for sea-robbery, piracy being a robbery committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty. But there are several words to differenciate between pirate and pirate. They were called otherwise in Britain, in Spain and in the Caribbians.
"We are the men, the curse of the sea!"
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