Madagascar: The Lost Pirate Paradise

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Madagascar, baby!
Period sources:
A Compendius History of the Indian Wars - Clement Downing
A relation of three years suffering - Robert Everard
Jacob De Bucquoy: Pirates of Madagascar at Rio Delagoa - Jacob De Bucquoy, transl. by Baylus Brooks
Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's Journal - Robert Drury
The History of the Pyrates Vol. II - Capt. Charles Johnson
Modern sources:
Madagascar rediscovered - Mervyn Brown
Pirates and Kings: Power on the Shores of Early Modern Madagascar and the Indian Ocean - Jane Hooper
Pirates of the Americas - David Marley
Pirates of the Eastern Seas - Charles Grey
Pirate Nests and the rise of the British empire - Mark G. Hanna
Pirates, Slavers, and the Indigenous Population in Madagascar, c.1690-1715 - Arne Bialuschewski
Privateering and Piracy - John Franklin Jameson
The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths - Benerson Little
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd - Richard Zacks
Music sources:
0:00 Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music by Jim Spalink
6:31 • Madagascar musique du ...
6:43 • 30 Minute African Drum...
19:41 • Johann C.F. Fischer- M...
35:28 Can She Excuse My Wrongs by Jon Sayles at jsayles.com
0:00 Introduction
6:32 The Great Red Island
12:46 Europeans arrive
19:03 Fort Dauphin
24:52 The slave trade
35:28 St. Mary
51:52 King Samuel
57:53 The King of Ranter Bay
1:05:09 Rise of the Malagasy pirates
1:09:31 its him
#history #pirates #history #madagascar

[@GoldandGunpowder]

More videos on the Madagascar pirates: New York, closely linked to the Madagascar pirates and slave traders: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g52Yk55re76ega8 The Red Sea Men: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foK0pJh-hc5loqc Henry Every, most famous Red Sea Pirate: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZnbYWR7pMafq7M The Fancy, Every's flagship: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJTHcoNvjcpqha8

[@sharmaarkecajab978]

❤

[@beanlord4347]

Drink and a smoke while learning about pirate history, great way to spend an afternoon

[@jackelewish1568]

Yep, just got off work. Beer in hand first cig of the day.

[@dgehosky]

You're petty funny and I have no doubt it was fun.

[@LordLuzbelAlexander]

This is the way.

[@user-el5hm8ij1b]

My crack cocaine is very more-ish

[@Uncle_Roadkill]

To really get in spirit one should drink hot chocolate, rum and smoke a pipe, preferably made out of a crab claw

[@StoicHistorian]

Wow, this was such an overlooked part of history. Big kutos to you for making over an hour long video on it, it was a great watch

[@loganw1232]

Madagascar, home to Lemurs, Pirates, and Penguins.

[@GrimDoesMineCraft]

Penguins!? Not yet…

[@pissiole5654]

Not unlike my own house

[@EggGuy461]

"Just smile and wave boys. Smile and wave. "

[@sagethelemur]

as a lemur, "ARR matie"

[@Alex-cw3rz]

The intro song to this video is from a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights which is a Triptych, the musical notation appearing in the section depicting hell and is a score inscribed on someone's butt.

[@Coolguy8623]

Lol, yeah I recognized it 😅😂

[@Coolguy8623]

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[@RachDarastric2]

Just think, in 20 years it will become Madaelectricar.

[@LordLuzbelAlexander]

I stg, man. Got me wheezing

[@monkstery]

John Plantain’s career is batshit insane, I’m very glad he finally got covered in a video. Edward England emulated the legend of the Red Sea Man rover successfully taking both Muslim and EIC ships aboard his very own Fancy, Plantain emulated the Red Sea Man prince legend being a successful trader and African king waging wars throughout the island.

[@clesjikoandromas2061]

19:50 Dauphin here is the princely title of the infant royal heir of the french throne. The name comes from the region of Dauphiné in the french alps which was given to the royal heir thus the name! BTW the archéologue Jean Soulat who worked on Sainte Marie, The Speaker is preparing a new mission at Sainte Marie for 2024!

[@bigchungus4336]

You know it's getting harder to find good historical content on KZbin these days, but then there is Gold and Gunpowder!

[@amosbackstrom5366]

Really? I feel like there's been an explosion of amazing historical KZbin channels within the past 3-5 years

[@HanSolo__]

Fresh privateer drops. Coffee and cake - let's watch.

[@HanSolo__]

-It seemed like I got ❤from the author. There is none so probably it was a mistake.-

[@GoldandGunpowder]

YT glitch removes them sometimes

[@HanSolo__]

@@GoldandGunpowder Thank you. 😊

[@ceoofthen-word8849]

​@@HanSolo__ the likes get removed if you edit

[@willcorrell7101]

Been subscribed for about 2 years or so now and I’ve really been impressed with the expansion of content. Please keep up the great work!

[@piraticvs]

This video is amazing! This’ll come in handy with my pirate story!

[@alex_blue5802]

Perfect timing for my pirates dnd campaign

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

This wild island would make a superb setting for a D&D campaign - just change the weapons and such.

[@Jack-ff2zs]

itd make a great setting for an uncharted game aswell 😅

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

@@Jack-ff2zs Definitely!

[@andrestrishak8292]

All of your videos are superb. As is this one. Thank you.

[@oldbrokensqueezebox]

All the stories and history was great as always. But I really liked that little bit of you talking at the end while cutting up an orange lol that laugh at the end was so piratey. It was the perfect ratio of sinister intentions to joyous occasion.

[@skog44]

Thought it was mango?

[@oldbrokensqueezebox]

@@skog44 Maybe it was... I guess my fruit identification skills are lacking

[@skog44]

​@@oldbrokensqueezebox😂. It was an undercover orange 👍

[@hektorsayenkov]

Ethiopians, Persians, Somalis, Indians, Austranesians, Omani Arabs, and Arabs from Tylos ( modern-day Bahrain) had visited Madagascar by about 100 B.C. the ancient Arabs referred to it as the "Island of the Moon".

[@JcoleMc]

Arabs never called it that Africans called it the island of moon After the Mountains of the moon

[@Chadswonderfulwalkingtours]

Listening from Mackinac Island Michigan

[@thomastheawesome4822]

There's some good damn fudge on that island. It's delicious. You should get some.

[@George83_Thomas]

This platform needs more sponsorships like that

[@Misiulo]

I wish Firaxis remade Pirates, this time with new features, expanded map to include far East and Africa, heck maybe even Europe, expanded timeframe including the 18th century and possibly beyond, and some new features like becoming the pirate king, establishing bases, commanding multiple fleets, etc!

[@psyker4321]

Why don't you make it, cock-stuffer?

[@homuraakemi493]

Lets start a go fund me and make it happen!!

[@Misiulo]

@@homuraakemi493 A fan game? This would take some time. I've worked on Free Col for more than a decade. And since Sid Meier's Pirates is a proprietary game and he is still alive let's give him a chance. It's been 20 years. I think it's time :)

[@Jeffreymart]

An old favorite, the only 1 I play.

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

Great documentary of a very interesting topic. The quality of the recent content is absolutely excellent. BTW there seems to be a small hiccup in the subtitles at about 59:43 but nothing major. I hope these documentaries get the views they deserve. Cheers!

[@RyderFlo]

I just wanted to say that this is one of my favorites episodes to date in my honest opinion, i mean the channel is very entertaining and interesting overall but there's always a few that stands out a bit for me and this one was definitely one of them (I must also say that I was quite hyped for this particular topic considering all the stories and figures around it) and especially when during a whole hour, really well done captain !

[@PyrotechnicsNL]

Being From Groningen, Northern Capitol city of the Dutch and Viking ancestors and my whole family Sailors and still owning big sailing ships my inspiration is triggered very sharp again cheers Ahoi!

[@martinramisu7428]

mister, your channel gets better and better by every video love your work, thx for all the effort

[@jackrice2770]

A big thank you from a Patreon supporter. I can't express how much I enjoy hearing real pirate history. The thought strikes me that with all the incredible factual stories about the Age of Sail (I think that's more accurate than 'Golden Age of Pirates' since piracy has been around like...forever) why the public has been fed an endless diet of fantasy? I'm trying to finish work on a series of historical novels that try to be based on some semblance of reality. Granted, I found myself hampered by the need for a coherent narrative with compelling characters, complex relationships and, of course, plenty of sex and violence. (I know what sells.) But I tried my best to at least capture the feeling of the period, and what a 'typical' pirate lad might experience. I used mostly names of various pirates, not paying any attention to correct times/places, but to 'honor', so to speak, some of the lesser known names of documented pirates. That shameless plug now ended, your documentaries have been excellent fodder for my second book, whereupon our now-not-so-young hero goes on the Pirate Round, and enters into the business of piracy in the 1690's. I think the interplay of international politics, economics, evolving technology, religion, etc. creates such a fertile field for the honest historical novelist that perhaps one day these amazing persons, representing every variant of the human species, can be more widely known beyond the world of that Spawn of the Devil, Walter Disney.

[@fredshred5194]

An interesting mini doc on a part of the world not often mentioned . Have a like.

[@panjirlion]

this would be an awesome a total war game mode

[@davidyoung2111]

Man ive looked everywhere for pirate info on Madigascar & couldnt find anything decent so thank you so much! When i get paid im sending you a few bux!

[@DIEGhostfish]

Adam Baldrich gave me the best vacation ever.

[@Shocojones1212]

Best Pirate Channel E V E R ! ! !

[@nightfire_CSGO]

👏 SUPPORT 👏 EDUCATIONAL 👏 CREATORS 👏

[@eliteplier]

Heading towards Madagascar in Uncharted 4 to find Averys treasure

[@Jack-ff2zs]

sic parvis magna

[@jasondohrman7098]

Hell yeah great video! Love it!

[@viruschoccymilkgang]

Yo can we get a guide to normal merchants? Not like the treasure fleet, like the Honduras Ship or ships like the Walrus in Black Sails’ beginning.

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

Greetings from Connecticut.

[@unclestoma4699]

i love these long vids

[@MegaTang1234]

Not sure why Madegascarar gets so ignored, it's got the most colorful history of the 18th and 19th century

[@soulsmoke01]

This channel is 👌 awesome, great job man

[@deflydoesit7292]

Enjoyed that very much top channel

[@sanmartinovallevictorjuven5187]

You know the video is gonna be good when it starts with Hieronymus Bosch butt song!

[@pe003]

Great video, thanks

[@FutureBoyWonder]

1 hour of fold and gunpowder? Ive long wanted to see you explore deeper videos

[@bookofroger]

Just smile and wave boys…

[@ET-mr4iu]

Great presentation of a fascinating subject. For the francophones among us, there's a three volume graphic novel based on Defoe's Libertalia.

[@erikm8372]

40:55 “…garden seeds, and three dozen hoes…the tools, that is.” 😂

[@garypiont6114]

Excellent vid Thanks

[@naomiseraphina9718]

Thanks!

[@jaysonagapito8663]

I missed this island. Used to work there.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

what did you work with?

[@jaysonagapito8663]

@@GoldandGunpowder worked in a nickel mining/ refinery before, in Toamasina.

[@fredericremuzat8557]

A very nice video, and well documented, however, concerning the original settlement of the Great Island, it is now scientifically proven that the first inhabitants were present at least 3500 to 4000 years before our era! Traces of butchery on bones of megafauna have been found at several archaeological sites scattered in several regions. Nice job! I live here since 1983, now @Fianarantsoa! ALôôôFô!

[@GoldandGunpowder]

ok, interesting

[@Redneckkratos]

Oh God for the first like second or two, I thought the intro song was gonna be the Spinal theme from the newest Killer Instinct….. which would be appropriate since he’s a skeleton pirate

[@mattgutierrez7651]

Narration sounds much better than last time. New mic, or did you just record this one without getting sloshed on the rum?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

i was actually suffering from tonsillitis during recording

[@mattgutierrez7651]

@@GoldandGunpowder Aah, my condolences.

[@dylantyt6654]

That could make a good mood ie

[@garypiont6114]

No malnourished, what a experience back then.

[@GAIVSCALIGVLA]

I sail from New York next Wednesday! I’ll see you guys in Madagascar!

[@Jeffreymart]

Did you make it?

[@SuleimanTheIndifferent]

Adam Baldridge reminds me of Craster from got

[@seadog1334]

Have you read Batman : Leatherwing? You might want to give it a chance, maybe make a historical accuracy analysis like the AC 4 video, It's a batman story set in the 1500-1600 AD buccaneer era.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

I'm done making media reviews, the AC4 one performed poorly and the recent long-form historical content performs really well. Nor are the media reviews especially fun to make since it's just deconstructing someone else's creative work instead of producing something new. They also attract an audience uninterested in the regular content, which is what I want to produce

[@aliceinaddiction]

@ 18:35 nothing like fresh chocolate milk.

[@Dom06G]

Can you do a video on the whydah gally please

[@nikitanavy4724]

@GoldandGunpowder Silent Hunter 3 theme mysix for some reason. Flashbacks to sinking larger tonnage like battleships

[@GoldandGunpowder]

never heard about it, listed all the music used in the video description

[@James-lt9mh]

Peter Easton would make an awesome episode!

[@kaynhuros2050]

How fast was the fancy? In knots

[@brandofoster6195]

Yo ho yo ho and a bottle 🍾 of rum ...arrr matey land ahoy 😅

[@drumshero03]

20:20 - “the port was named Dauphin in honor of king Louis XIV, then a child, and it means Dolphin”, I mean, doesn’t it mean Infant (as in, a son of a king)? I know the word for dolphin and Infant (son of a king) are the same or very similar, but if it’s in the king’s honor…

[@jackievanhelen]

yarrrr i be needin te go back te rehab me alcoholism be gettin out of hand yar

[@pissypiancilamblamumba7573]

Do one on camouflage a rapper out of Savannah

[@treehunter420]

When she asks you what you bring to the relationship @3:56

[@Michel411]

Incredible video, well researched, with compelling story telling and interesting anecdotes. Aside from that, thank you so much for introducing us all to the “Butt Music” playing at the beginning. Lead me to an interesting rabbit hole into the painting itself, and of course it’s a beautiful piece of music. Very well done, good Sir.

[@fajaradi1223]

Mad at gas car?

[@woah6958]

40:41 A worm?😂

[@GoldandGunpowder]

It's a wooden stick with a metal bit at the end curled like a spring and terminating in a sharp spike - reminiscent of a worm - used to pull the wadding out of cannons, allowing the ball and powder to slip out, thus unloading the cannon.

[@woah6958]

@@GoldandGunpowder Awesome. Thanks for informing me.

[@kirtknierim3687]

Interesting sponsor 😂

[@johnaaron37]

Yarr!

[@autonomous_collective]

👍

[@ButterBallTheOpossum]

The intro sounds like the original version of dazed and confused that Led Zeppelin stole

[@1323WTF]

I had wondered when Rediker would be mentioned... Anytime an author uses the word 'Dialectic' in the first 3 - 5 pages, you know you have a Marxist Anthropologist. He has some good ideas but always couched in his background ideology.

[@lukewolstenholme4618]

Can you do one about Mauritius 🦤

[@drewwilson8756]

Fer ze algorithms!

[@nerminc.1713]

Shit post for algorithm thithem.

[@donovandelaney3171]

Most Pirates were religious and gay and good people.

[@stephennmullins3989]

2024June03: Monday. 22:22. .>. .>. . . . .

[@heitorfontenele2041]

Um dia você vai dublar o seu canal em português e espanhol principalmente em português🦊🦊🦊🦊🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🦊🦊🦊🦊

[@tomalexander4327]

So many mid rolls.

[@JCOwens-zq6fd]

We still engage in slavery here in America. Private prisons rent out prisoners to corporations all over the country for profit. People try to act like its different but it really isnt.

[@TheNumber]

It is different because slaves didn’t do anything to make themselves slaves, in theory. The prison system in America sucks and we need reform, but it’s not anywhere close to slavery in history.

[@mageillus]

Indentured Servitude has entered the chat

[@GoldandGunpowder]

IIRC the privatized prison system in America incentivizes harsher imprisonment for lighter crimes. I'm not well versed into this topic however. Speaking historically, criminals in West Africa were usually sold as slaves, I imagine it was the same at Madagascar.

[@homuraakemi493]

Redditard moment

[@xTheReapersSpawn]

3:10 ...and by historical fiction you mean History? jk jk... All ❤ . I appreciate how you always keep that in mind when framing your videos. 😃

[@patavinity1262]

I'm not sure why you're using medieval imagery and music to represent the late 17th century, but OK.

[@1stHuemanAmerican]

I knew JESUS wasn't Real back again wow

[@monkstery]

?

[@Johnchuk3]

I get not believing in piratopia, by why assume that they'd build harram fortresses? It seems like you've gone from one extreme to the other. Especially when the locals would take to western language and customs instead of treating them as weird rapists living in the woods. It seems way more likely that they'd integrate into the local culture after doing their bit as slaves.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

the locals weren't one unit, Madagascar consists of several peoples with different entities within them, the fortresses were necessary to defend against rival tribes, or simply other pirates(see the Plantain story) or even colonial forces, this will become apparent in next month's biography

[@michaelrredford]

Thanks!

[@jillatherton4660]

👍

[@skog44]

Thanks!

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Thank you very much!