The increasing popularity of pirate collectibles is largely due to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, and Johnny Depp’s character, Captain Jack Sparrow has sparked a demand for pirate replicas of all kinds.
Pirates have always been represented as dashing figures; buccaneers that roam the seas seeking adventure. Little was said of the cruelty they showed to those that they captured and were of little use for ransom, or of the treatment they meted out to their female captives. They are glorified in the same way as the Wild West gunslingers; as knights paladin rather than the murderers that they were.
A pirate’s whole objective was to steal what was not theirs. They were killers who let their captives live only if there was a purpose for doing so that would benefit them, and who killed those who could not provide them with profit in the cruelest possible ways. Captain Henry Morgan once shackled a woman to a stove and roasted her alive for refusing to provide the whereabouts of her jewels and money.
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