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Pirates & Privateers - The Pirates' Arsenal of Torture
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Nestled among the books on my library shelves is John
Swain’s The Pleasures of the Torture Chamber. It details a variety
of ways to inflict pain on someone from “miscellaneous merriments
of the olden times” to pain we inflict upon ourselves. Each of us
may have a different viewpoint of what constitutes torture and
what does not. For example, some former students likened my silent
detentions to the most excruciating form of torture they ever
endured. Many pirates experienced or witnessed various forms of
torture at some point in their lives before going on the account,
and just as law-abiding citizens tortured people, so did pirates.
This Page is About:
pirates, arsenal, torture, Cindy
Vallar, pilloried, George Choundas, The Pirate Primer, flogging,
punishment, cat-o'-nine-tails, whip, lash, Moses's Law, whipping,
Bartholomew Roberts, Governor of the Island, marooned, Henry
Morgan, Alexandre Exquemelin, Captain Blood, woolding, sweating,
George Shelvocke, blooding, Caribbean, Chinese, Montbars,
L'Olonnais, buccaneers
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