Sunday, March 26, 2017

Research Topic

 The topic I chose is pirate punishment. I am focusing on the severe punishments that pirates/captives received for misbehaving on board a pirate ship. My aim is to show that pirates aren’t what they show us in the movies, that they were truly vicious. My goal is to figure out which of their many methods of punishment/torture was the most unethical, which punishment was most feared by the ship’s crew. I found this topic interesting because before starting this project I had no idea that there were so many violent punishments, I felt kind of stupid to think that marooning and walking the plank were the only punishments pirates were capable of. So with this project I will learn more about their punishments and why they did such things.

http://pirateattack.co.uk/top-ten-pirate-punishments-2/

https://sites.google.com/a/uconn.edu/pirate-executions-and-methods-of-torture/woolding

http://archive.archaeology.org/online/reviews/pirates/poll.html

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