The Pirate History Podcast
Matt Albers
A podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, the real men and women that threatened the trade and stability of the Old World empires, the forces that led them to piracy and the myths and stories they inspired. Famous names like Captain Henry Morgan, Henry Avery, Charles Vane, Mary Reed, Anne Bonny, Black Bart Roberts, Ned Low, and Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach will rub elbows with Queens, Kings, Popes, rebellious monks, Caribbean Natives, African Slaves and notorious governors like Woodes Rogers. History, high seas adventure, myth and magic, voodoo, treachery, biography and freedom await.
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Apr 28, 2020 • 35min
Episode 161 - Step Lightly
The effects of the Stuart Restoration and the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars on New England and Chesapeake Bay would have far reaching consequences in the world of the pirates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 21, 2020 • 42min
Episode 160 - Wicked & Unrighteous Practices
We're taking off at a run and covering New England's pirate problem through the Thirty Years War and the First Anglo-Dutch War. I call it a bullet point episode to get us to the major New England pirate events of the 1660s and 1670s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 7, 2020 • 40min
Episode 159 - A Sea Highwayman
Today we continue our look at New England. Puritan divisions, Indigenous politics, war, finally culminating in the tale of the first New England pirate: Dixey Bull. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 31, 2020 • 32min
Episode 158 - North American Colonization
We're taking a very broad look at the arrival of Europeans into the North American world from about 1500 to 1630. From Newfoundland to New France, Carolina to New Netherland, and finally New England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 24, 2020 • 45min
Episode 157 - Rascally Fellows of Desperate Fortunes
This is the conclusion of the drama on the Chesapeake. Richard Ingle, William Claiborne, Leonard Calvert, and Thomas Cornwaleys all converge in a bout of pillage and violence in 1644 known as The Plundering Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 17, 2020 • 35min
Episode 156 - High Treason
The English Civil War arrived in America when a trader named Richard Ingle was accused of Parliamentarian sympathies. Today's drama will set off the first wave of piracy in English North America - a period known as The Plundering Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 10, 2020 • 34min
Episode 155 - Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder Part 2
The fighting on the Chesapeake exploded in the 1630s between Virginia and Maryland. The trading post on Kent Island was under siege, but a series of small successes attracted more and more sailors until Kent Island looked very much like a pirate haven. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 4, 2020 • 38min
Episode 154 - Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder Part 1
Jamestown, Virginia was growing into a viable colony when another party entered the American Colonial world. A formidable Catholic family moved in on the northeast coast of Chesapeake Bay, igniting a fight that would erupt in a scourge of piracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 25, 2020 • 32min
Episode 153 - The Scum of Men
This is the story of the first act of piracy in the North American English colonies. But really it's a story of rich, greedy, prideful, selfish, downright evil men. And the evil men aren't the pirates. And Christopher Newport, but he's cool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 18, 2020 • 39min
Episode 152 - An Ambitious Unworthy & Vainglorious Fellow
This is the story of Sir Christopher Newport & John Smith and the colony at Jamestown. Smith is often lauded as the driving force behind the first successful English colony in the New World, but he was little more than a con man. It's a very opinionated episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
