Privateer

They also contracted the help of two Portuguese slavers to assist the WIC in their maiden voyage. Because of the necessity for immediate slaves, the WIC also contracted privateers to confiscate Africans from Spanish and Portuguese slave ships. As the slave trade began to produce laborers, the WIC transported 26,286 documented Africans to Northern Brazil. From 1636 through 1645, the WIC imported ninety-four percent of their…

(1744-1749) years at the local grammar school, Thetford Grammar School, but he failed out of school. After failing out of grammar school Thomas becomes his father’s apprentice as a stay maker, thick rope stays on a sail ship. He briefly became a privateer, and returned to Britain in 1759 and opened up his own business in in Sandwich, Kent, England. On September 27, 1759, he married Mary Lambert, and his business went under soon after. Mary became pregnant, but she went into early labor, where…

merchant in Genoa, Italy, Columbus was born. He began his sea fairing at an early age. While he was still a teenager he got a job aboard a merchant ship. In 1476, Columbus took his first trip into the Atlantic and it nearly cost him his life. French privateers attacked the ship he was on off the cost of Portugal and he floated back to shore. From there Columbus traveled to Lisbon Portugal. Here he began to study navigation and cartography. (Bio) while he was here he also began to settle down…

The music business has progressed significantly since those frightful days of the mono recordings. Back then, artists, engenderers, and engineers didn't have as much of a cull of what equipment that would utilize to get their recordings done. With the advancement in technology and incipient innovations perpetually being engendered in the music industry, the opportunities are illimitable. If you look up the definition of technology you will optically discern the words industry and commerce, which…

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Charlotte Scherer Language Arts II Miss Hisey 23 May, 2016 Pirates and Kings: A Similar Path Taken by Macbeth and Sir Francis Drake Who has power? Some may imagine princesses, queens, parents, teachers, pirates, nobility when asked this. There are a lot of different forms of power and many different people can have it. This is a goal that has been sought after for centuries upon centuries. People of power can have good characteristics and do morally wrong things in a semi rational way. Two like…

remotely from the Revolution, but it did give him, and other penniless, average Americans the opportunity to at least attempt to make a more stable livelihood for themselves. Further into the piece, the author describes Hewes’ attempt at being a Privateer, which was essentially “legalized piracy with a share of booty for each pirate” (p. 604). Although Privateering proved “disastrous” for Hewes, he was at least given the chance to attempt something so incredibly dissimilar from his practiced…

So what of the Dutch impact in the Transatlantic slave trade? After all, they are only fifth in all-time slave trafficking and the other countries dwarf their numbers by well over 500,000. Nevertheless, a consensus among historians agree that the Dutch economy would not be what it is was without the impact of the slave trade. “The early modern Dutch economy probably had the largest per capita income in the early modern Europe and was able to harness labor resources and expertise from a…

A little known fact among the American people is that on August 24th, 1814, the White House was burned to the ground all because of political and military failings (Smithsonian Institute). The main reasons for the destruction of the nation 's capital were rooted in the inexperience of the Americans at running a country, coupled with an intense Anglophobia, which led to bickering and lack of direction as politicians intentionally made poor decisions in an effort to move away from British…

In the time leading up to the drafting of the Alien and Sedition Acts, distinct political parties were forming. The Federalists, who supported the act and were mainly elites, and the Democratic-Republicans, who did not and were mainly working class. The existence of these opposing political opinions led to rapid increase of tensions in the U.S. The government, which was majority Federalist. The Federalists had an unfair advantage and could pass laws to suppress the Democratic-Republicans from…