![]() Cotton Mather’s and other ministers’ comments on piracy are read as a response to the perception of collective crisis of Puritan society.Ģ.1.1 The Caribbean Scenario in the Late Seventeenth Century Public executions of pirates and the sermons and broadsides produced for these events used the figure of the pirate as an Other against whom to produce and renew third-generation Puritan social cohesion. The second part focuses on gallows narratives and anti-piratical sermons in Puritan New England, which articulated piracy as sinful, devilish, and destructive for the community. ![]() ![]() They adopted the discourse of science and helped legitimize colonial plunder-material and symbolic-as beneficial to the European ‘empire of knowledge’. It begins with an analysis of Exquemelin’s Buccaneers of America (1678), which inspired a series of ethnographic narratives about the New World by former ‘pirates’ at the time (e.g., William Dampier, Basil Ringrose, Bartholomew Sharp, Lionel Wafer), written as evidence of their authors’ gradual transformation into scientists. This chapter examines the transformation of the Caribbean pirate into a colonial agent on the one hand and an enemy for Puritan society on the other around 1700. ![]()
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