Almost all were of lower working-class individuals who were “deprived of access to the goodies in life” and were prepared to do whatever it took to reverse their current state. They had little or no formal education, but would have had previous experience or knowledge of life at sea. Arguably, it was the only education they needed since that they were so successful. Of the one-hundred-and-sixty-nine documented ages of pirates in the peak years, over half of them were between the ages of twenty to twenty-nine, because it was physically demanding and dangerous to work an eighteenth century
Almost all were of lower working-class individuals who were “deprived of access to the goodies in life” and were prepared to do whatever it took to reverse their current state. They had little or no formal education, but would have had previous experience or knowledge of life at sea. Arguably, it was the only education they needed since that they were so successful. Of the one-hundred-and-sixty-nine documented ages of pirates in the peak years, over half of them were between the ages of twenty to twenty-nine, because it was physically demanding and dangerous to work an eighteenth century