Title: Privateering and piracy in the colonial period: illustrative documents
Description: "A privateer is an armed vessel (or its commander) which, in time of war, though owners and officers and crew are private persons, has a commission from a belligerent government to commit acts of warfare on vessels of its enemy"--Pref.
Subjects: History, Piracy, Privateering, Pirates
Places: United States
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775