Welcome back to part two of our double episode on the Golden Age of Piracy.

If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, thenow, chow, all the matthino.

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The weather. Tomorrow expect a a? Biting cold front.

Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild

and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday,

temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.

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non-stop sunshine. Last episode, we looked at the world that gave rise to the golden age of piracy,

brutal working conditions,

exploitation, and the sailors who chose to fight back by creating a new social order at sea.

They took to the open seas far away from authority of any kind, declaring war on the world they came from.

Pirates depended on the great expanses of waters and seas, oceans, because they were very hard for the navies of the world to police.

But when the whole world is against you, where do you go?

Because you can't stay at sea forever. You have to go ashore. You have to get food.

You have to get the barnacles scraped off the side of the vessel.

You need to have a place you can go.

Though the imperial powers of the day had their grip on much of the world,

there were some places where they were weak, and their resources were stretched thin.

For example, on some of the smaller Caribbean islands, in lesser ports in Cuba or Puerto Rico, or San Damang, some of the bigger islands of the Caribbean, there were small ports.

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