How Many Ships Are Riding in a Month?

Every pirate, anyone who fought on the seas, did kill some people, but not as many as we're probably imagining. So pirates would essentially raid as much as they could in a safe manner. A lot of colonial governors sort of turned a blind eye to pirates because they brought in goods that they couldn't get otherwise. The british had really restricted trade in amongst the west indies and north america. They didn't want their colonists trading with the spanish and the french,. cause they wanted to control their own trade.