When speaking about history, many people tend to focus on the influential roles and accomplishments of straight, white males who acted as a majority in traditional English society. However, this perception of history tends to overlook many other groups who played equally as influential roles, such as women, people of color and people who diverged from sexual norms. Historically, these groups are considered minorities because they had been repressed by popular society and treated like second class citizens based on certain attributes about themselves that they could not change, namely their sex, skin color or sexual preference. This oversight holds true even when considering the history of piracy, which famously consisted of various notable
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Life at sea holds many dangers, ranging from the possibility of contracting an unknown disease to unfortunate mishaps that could easily cost a person – or several – their lives. In order to alleviate this innate stress when taking up such a venture, crews would have to come together and form a strong community in which one could easily rest their lives in the hands of another. Pirate crews operated similarly. Not only did pirates have to deal with the commonplace dangers of a life at sea, but they also dealt with the risks associated with their particular occupation, with the threat of death around every corner as they conducted raids of a ports and merchant ship while evading law enforcement. As a result, pirate ships became established communities, which had its own ways of maintaining order, usually on the crew’s own terms. Living through high stress situations in a community of one’s own design prompted people to become closer fairly quickly, so long as everyone on the ship had proved that they were worthy of the trust ascribed to them and were able to deal with the responsibility that comes with …show more content…
Conventional ideals within England created a very structured idea of what a woman should be and what exactly their roles were within society. Due to the importance of such ideals, publishing houses began to print manuals of conduct for women during the eighteenth century with the goal of formulating the ‘ideal gentlewoman’. The manual publications were clearly intended for the gentry and upper class citizens, however, the number of copies published leads historians like Ingrid Tague to believe that many lower class women purchased such items as well. Though there is no evidence that demonstrates just how many people actually read such books, the popularity of the books can be extrapolated from the sheer number of copies published, seeing as publishing houses at the time only increased supply to fit demand. These publications, like the series ‘Resolving all the Most Nice and Curious Questions Proposed by the Ingenious’ by The Athenian Gazette expressed interest in educating women based on a question-answer format; however, most of the topics focused on moral and religious matters rather than political or economic issues. The lack of political and economic education for women in popular public forums is unsurprising, considering that most women at the time were expected to marry and, upon that marriage, become
Life at sea holds many dangers, ranging from the possibility of contracting an unknown disease to unfortunate mishaps that could easily cost a person – or several – their lives. In order to alleviate this innate stress when taking up such a venture, crews would have to come together and form a strong community in which one could easily rest their lives in the hands of another. Pirate crews operated similarly. Not only did pirates have to deal with the commonplace dangers of a life at sea, but they also dealt with the risks associated with their particular occupation, with the threat of death around every corner as they conducted raids of a ports and merchant ship while evading law enforcement. As a result, pirate ships became established communities, which had its own ways of maintaining order, usually on the crew’s own terms. Living through high stress situations in a community of one’s own design prompted people to become closer fairly quickly, so long as everyone on the ship had proved that they were worthy of the trust ascribed to them and were able to deal with the responsibility that comes with …show more content…
Conventional ideals within England created a very structured idea of what a woman should be and what exactly their roles were within society. Due to the importance of such ideals, publishing houses began to print manuals of conduct for women during the eighteenth century with the goal of formulating the ‘ideal gentlewoman’. The manual publications were clearly intended for the gentry and upper class citizens, however, the number of copies published leads historians like Ingrid Tague to believe that many lower class women purchased such items as well. Though there is no evidence that demonstrates just how many people actually read such books, the popularity of the books can be extrapolated from the sheer number of copies published, seeing as publishing houses at the time only increased supply to fit demand. These publications, like the series ‘Resolving all the Most Nice and Curious Questions Proposed by the Ingenious’ by The Athenian Gazette expressed interest in educating women based on a question-answer format; however, most of the topics focused on moral and religious matters rather than political or economic issues. The lack of political and economic education for women in popular public forums is unsurprising, considering that most women at the time were expected to marry and, upon that marriage, become