5 The next generation, the pirates of the 1690s who mostly used Madagascar as a base to attack shipping between India and Arabia, assumed the quasi-legal appellation of “privateer,” ostensibly dividing any prize profits with their backer. During Captain Sharpe’s attack on Spanish-held Darien in 1680, his Buccaneer companies flew flags of solid red, solid green, red with white and green ribbons, red with yellow stripes, and a red and yellow striped ensign with a hand holding a sword for the device. The fabled West Indies Buccaneers of the 1670s and 1680s, commanded by men like Sir Henry Morgan and Captain Bartholomew Sharpe, flew national standards or their own banners, and were filled with the radical zeal of Protestants fighting against the New World empire of Catholic Spain. Two previous generations of piracy’s Golden Age used varied standards and colors for identification. It is surprising to realize that it was only during the last ten-year period of piracy’s Golden Age, from 1716 to 1726, that the Jolly Roger assumed its most documented, familiar form, and its undisputed prominence as the flag of pirates throughout the Atlantic world.
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Depending on the particular crew and captain, the flag was usually black and emblazoned with devices, sometimes the famous skull and crossed bones of a death’s head, a full skeleton or “anatomy,” crossed swords, hourglasses, darts, hearts dripping blood, or even an image of the pirate captain himself. Various pirate flags incorporated “a triad of interlocking symbols-death, violence, limited time,” 3 aspects of maritime life with which all sailors, especially pirates, were intimately familiar. The pirates’ black flags also served as the representative symbol of those men who “went on the account,” (as turning pirate was called) in the eyes of both national authorities (the crown, provincial governors, admiralty courts) and also in the eyes of the pirates themselves. Black flags of canvas or silk communicated a visual message (surrender peacefully or face battle) to potential prize ships at sea. What colonial Rhode Island’s provincial authorities were demonstrating by hanging the Jolly Roger on the scaffold with the corpses was the two-fold forcefulness of the flag. 1Īlthough the iconography may not be the typical white skull and crossed bones on a black field, this flag which Harris and pirate crew called “Old Roger” was indeed a variant of the most recognizable maritime flag in history-the Jolly Roger, the acknowledged standard of the Golden Age of Piracy’s third and final generation. This Flag they call’d Old Roger, and often used to say they would live and die under it. Their Black Flag, with the Pourtrature of Death having an Hour-Glass in one Hand, and a Dart in the other, at the end of which was the Form of a Heart with three Drops of Blood, falling from it, was affix’d at one Corner of the Gallows. A flag, the most potent and illustrative symbol of their criminal way of life, was hung with them: The pirates were not alone in hanging from the gallows. Captain Charles Harris, a 25-year-old London native, was hanged alongside his crew before a crowd of thousands gathered on shore and in boats.
Twenty-six men, the youngest just seventeen and the oldest forty years of age, were hanged for the crime of piracy. Gravelly Point in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, witnessed the gruesome spectacle of a mass hanging just after noon on 19 July 1723. Rocky Mountain Ukulele Orchestra Rehearsals.
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