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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Sep 22, 2017 • 45min
Episode 41 - Those Who are Born to be Hang'd
After the sack of Santa Maria the Buccaneers make way down river toward the Southern Ocean. The crew of one unlucky canoe suffers three grueling days of trials and suffering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 11, 2017 • 40min
Episode 40 - The Sacred Hunger of Gold
The pirate fleet under John Coxon makes landfall in Darien to assault the Spanish Main. There they meet the Kuna people & King Goldencap, struggle across the isthmus of America and help the Kuna in their quest for justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 27, 2017 • 46min
Episode 39 - Ne'er do wells of All the World
Two new pirate captains - Richard Sawkins & Peter Harris - join with the fleet of John Coxon & Bartholomew Sharpe, but only after a series of trials and tribulations. And we explore a 300 year old conspiracy theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 21, 2017 • 1h
Episode 38 - Weeds or Hydras
After years of relative quiet a secret gathering of the West Indies' most notorious pirates convened at Negril Bay, Jamaica. The Captains and crew met to embark on a daring and dangerous voyage that would make them wanted men from Port Royal to Portobelo, and from the East Indies to London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 31, 2017 • 48min
Episode 37 - Gentlemen & Scoundrels part 2
Sir Henry Morgan returns to Port Royal. It is a very different time, with very different people confronting very different challenges, yet Morgan navigates them all with the same daring he's trusted for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 27, 2017 • 51min
Episode 36 - Gentlemen & Scoundrels
June, 1674, Jamaica. An unassuming merchant vessel arrives in Port Royal bearing an unknown young man who will become one of the most famous Buccaneers, explorers, & naturalists ever to live. Today we introduce William Dampier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 17, 2017 • 43min
Episode 35 - Assistance
The Dutch were the dominant sea power in the 1660s, and today we discuss the three most notorious Dutch pirates of the Buccaneer era. History has left their names behind, but in their day they were as feared as Morgan. The end of their story marks the end of the first wave of Buccaneers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 30, 2017 • 29min
Episode 34 - By the Vanquished
Today we begin our multi-part look at the real pirates that were on the ground at Panama with Diego Lucifer, Captain Francis Witherborne, and Jan Lucas. We talk about their origins as best we know them, and their fates in the days following Morgan's raid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 26, 2017 • 52min
Episode 33 - Payment
Admiral Henry Morgan returns to Port Royal to find himself enmeshed in international relations. He returns to England and - though his freedom and life are at stake - becomes an essential cog in the high stakes world of courtly politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 7, 2017 • 36min
Episode 32 - The Royal Perspective
The fate of Admiral Morgan, Governor Modyford, and the Jamaica colony was uncertain following the sacking of Panama, and it fell to King Charles II of England to make a judgement. Today we look at who he was, his religious affiliation, and the plans that Morgan put in peril. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
