In total 1,726 seafarers were affected by piracy and armed robbery in 2017 in West African waters, compared to the 1,921 the year before. While 880 failed attacks or boarding occurred, 21 episodes of kidnapping took place and 100 seafarers were taken hostages.

From bases on the Barbary Coast, North Africa, the Barbary corsairs raided ships travelling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured.

Black Caesar, according to traditional accounts, was a prominent African tribal war chieftain. Widely known for his "huge size, immense strength and keen intelligence," he evaded capture from many different slave traders.

2019年6月18日 · The East African shipping routes along the Somali coastline have been notorious for hijackings and robberies.

In this documentary, we followed soldiers, sailors, and pirates over several months, joining them on their raids to unveil their operational methods.

One of the most famous Black pirates was Black Caesar, who raided ships in the Florida Keys for almost a decade before joining Blackbeard aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Like many pirates, his life is shrouded in legend, but he was apparently a very large and very cunning man.

2021年2月2日 · Between the 1600s and 1900s Barbary pirates captured and enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans, who came to be known as the white slaves of Barbary. What fate

2023年6月28日 · They attack drilling platforms on powerful speedboats, abducting foreign nationals to later exchange for ransoms. In 2015, 73 of these attacks resulted in 62 abductions. They are the modern...

2021年3月27日 · Africa, especially the Gulf of Guinea is the most dangerous sea in the World for piracy. Let’s a take look at the history of piracy in this region and around the continent.

Taylor Yangas is a junior history major from Lombard, Illinois. "Black Pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy: Men Seeking Escape and Transformation" was written for Dr. Charles Foy’s spring 2013 course, “The Golden Age of Piracy.”