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Gimme the Loot
Mueller, Gavin
http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/gimme-the-loot/Publisher: Jacobin Magazine Year Published: 2012 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX14617 Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast. Subject Headings |