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When people talk about pirates, they're usually talking about pirates from what's called the

Golden Age of Piracy.

That term, the Golden Age of Piracy, was a term coined in the book

a general history of the robberies and

it was assumed for many years that the author of that work,

Captain Charles Johnson, was a PIN name for Daniel Defoe,

however that's been challenged in recent years and it's generally accepted that it wasn't Defoe now.

But whoever it was, the author used the term Golden Age of Piracy to describe the Caribbean Pirates that were active from about

1710 to 1720, roughly speaking. Pirate historians have adopted the term in a broader

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