Explained — S02E06 — Pirates

00:00:28 When Adolf Eichmann was found guilty for his role in the Holocaust,

00:01:20 Today, we don’t really think of pirates as enemies of humanity.

00:02:14 The world must come together to end the scourge of piracy.

00:03:20 for a great deal of the persistent romanticization of pirate life.

00:04:13 And they all hired pirates to steal and loot from their enemies.

00:05:00 Remnants of ships from that era litter the ocean floor today.

00:05:51 without understanding the slave trade, because slave labor was behind

00:06:37 he was one of England's first slave traders.

00:07:19 He became significant and prominent in Jamaican society,

00:08:13 where pirates were robbing the ships of the British East India Company.

00:09:06 “...the growing Trouble, Disturbance and Mischief of the Trading World...”

00:09:56 No state denies the right of any other state to pick up,

00:10:44 because, in 1713, European powers briefly reached a peace,

00:11:40 with some pretty progressive worker protections.

00:12:28 And all of this amped up public intrigue around pirates.

00:13:14 like pirates singing, “Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum,”

00:13:53 Hook!

00:14:42 For 15 years, at the turn of the 19th century,

00:15:35 to either become military officials or be resettled on land.

00:16:24 but oil...

00:17:07 What we have experienced...

00:17:56 people are driven to piracy today for simple reasons.

00:18:48 Into the 1700s, pirates just couldn’t compete

00:19:41 They just aren't the part of history that we tend to think they are.