Blog Post 9

My research project was about black pirates and their influence on the pirate world past and present. I tried to make a comparison between Black pirates that operated in the Caribbean back in the 17th century and the black pirates that operate of the east and west coasts of Africa in the 21st century. In my research project I was able to highlight the important Black Pirate figure heads past and present. In my research project I highlighted some pirates like Black Caesar, Henri Caesar, Abduwali Muse  and Tom Polo as some of the main pirates past and present that were highlighted. Because today piracy was still one of main global issues that the world was facing. Major businesses and corporations have had people and assets held to ransom and destroyed by these individual pirate groups and organizations. They've also collected large ransoms from these corporations to have their assets and people freed and unharmed. In my research I also looked at the reasons Black People got into slavery. During this era slavery was a very big business and Slaves were very expensive but many of these slaves often escaped slavery either by secret or by force and they would usually end up becoming pirates. The motive of most black pirates today is poverty being so poor that they have to rob in order to survive.