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They were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own significant risk, the maximum amount of adversary trade as they could effectively haul back again to America's shores. They enjoyed a decisive role in America's struggle for self-reliance and later converted their seafaring skills to the slave trade, revealing the turmoil between enterprise and morality central to American background.In Patriot Pirates, Robert H. Patton, the grandson of the battlefield genius of World Battle II, writes how privateering engaged all degrees of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assemblage halls; how it provided rise to outdoors speculation in purchased stocks in privateer ventures, permitting sailors to make more money in a month than they might earn in a yr; and how privateering created fortunes that make it through even today.As one naval historian published, “The great battles of the North american Trend were fought on land, but self-reliance was acquired at sea.”Patton writes how, in addition to its tactical and financial importance, privateering enjoyed a large politics role in the Trend. For instance, Benjamin Franklin, from his diplomatic post in Paris, secretly encouraged skippers to market their captured goods in French ports-a determined effort on Franklin's part to break the neutrality agreements between France and Britain, bring both countries to blows, and take the pressure off American fighters. This is a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal income and national independence.
