(05-09-2025, 09:36 PM)Byrd Wrote: You mention this in conjunction with the Civil War (and then swing back to the Proclamation Line, which was 100 years earlier in the newly formed United States.)Newcomers, this thread referenced points raised on another forum which is closed. There is a synopsis of the point of this thread on Post #14.
Their numbers declined sharply about the time the 13 colonies formed the United States and shrank after that...
"Good at foraging" doesn't seem to make any impact on anything. If they survived and quit piracy, they just melted into the population of whatever place they found themselves in, had a family and kids, and kept out of trouble. They didn't run off to become "mountain men"; that takes a special set of skills that pirates (who were generally from seaside towns and ports) don't have.
No special skills? What do you think they did when they foraged in the Caribbean? They kept themselves and transatlantic shipping fed.
Seaside towns and ports? Some of them were probably born and raised in the woods of some Caribbean island.
When their numbers declined sharply, how do you know it wasn't because they melted away into the area west of the Colonies?
