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Disney in 2003 launched the world into a new age of piracy with their release of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. an intriguing narrative that showcases many of the ideas of piracy such as treasure, innovation, tales of grand escapes, and most importantly freedom. So why does the age old tale of pirates still grab our attention?
This website provides a collection of articles that describe the Transatlantic Story, a time of exploration, piracy, oppression, and violence. This website is designed to examine different aspects of Transatlantic Story and how certain key parts to the story build off on one anther. The collections include different forms of primary and secondary sources, as well as pictures to help describe the sources. The collections on this website include the Spanish conquest of the Americas, technology that was used during this time, piracy and slavery, and piracy in South America and the Caribbean.
This website holds extreme historical significance due to its large effects of how piracy was more a form of protest rather than a form of criminality. Piracy represented a lower class sticking it to other nations who were profiting off of indigenous nations and lower class nations. Future classes will be able to use this sight as an example of protest in the 16th to 19th centuries.
This website was created by Edgar Blanco, Dustin Hillenburg, Gage Scronce, and Kyle Pallen