New Providence and Nassau | Pirate Nests

After the War of Spanish Succession, a group of former privateers known as the "Flying Gang" established a hideout on New Providence to continue their war on the Spanish. In this video we will explore the unique history that gave rise to New Providence as a pirate nest, as well as the cultural, economic and political motives of the pirates active there, and if it truly was a "Pirate Republic".
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Sources:
The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
csphistorical.com/2015/07/26/...
A Relation of the Great Sufferings and Strange Adventures of Henry Pitman
Quest for Blackbeard by Baylus C. Brooks
Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
Pirates In Their Own Words by E.T Fox
Jolly Rogers: The True History of Pirate Flags by E.T Fox
0:00 Introduction
0:33 The First Settlers
3:21 The Avery Legend
5:19 A Perfect Pirate's Nest
7:05 The Spanish Wrecks
7:43 A Pirate Republic?
8:51 Hornigold and Jennings
10:45 Economy and Infrastructure
12:55 End of the Flying Gang
15:31 Conclusion
16:08 Comment of the Week
#nassau #pirates #history #newprovidence #bahamas

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Lads and lassies, yesterday I reached 1000 subscribers on KZbin and I can't thank you all enough for it. On sunday I will upload a bonus video including a Q&A where I will answer some questions from our Discord server. If you want me to answer a question - anything - you can post it there or as a reply to this post. There are a lot of questions however so I won't be able to tackle all of them.

[@dbmwray]

Congrats! You deserve it dude! I’m glad your channel continues to grow and do well, thanks for putting great information out there!

[@Ravishrex1]

Here for the long hall.

[@chairofox516]

Hey I’m a tour guide from the Bahamas. To this day we still are a pirate republic in our politics and commerce. The spirit of piracy has always reincarnated in the Bahamas. In the 1920s we were a rum smuggling haven and in the 70s coke planes always landed in The Bahamas 😅.

[@patrickpettyjr.3134]

Yeah, some things never change. But that's what makes our country unique, you know.

[@DenziahMcIntosh]

Coke is what ruining Freeport I mean it's still functioning and in 2024 a lil safe than our capital but still Coke😭

[@denerorahming1157]

As a Bahamian I must say that this was a nice piece, even to this day we have unexplored caves thought to have pirates gold in them, no one is brave enough to squeeze through the cracks and crevices of some of them though.

[@dansanders340]

Any specific caves in mind? *Sweats in Caucasian*

[@Conn30Mtenor]

There isn't pirate gold. They always spent it when they had it. YOLO was a pirate paradigm.

[@swayback7375]

@@dansanders340well said sir. As soon as I read the original comment I thought “they must not have many drunk rednecks”

[@DenziahMcIntosh]

That's because ain't no Bahamian dumb enough to go squeezing in between holes we know we might die in 😂

[@mageillus]

9:22 Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin been transcending psychologically for centuries maaann...

[@volksanti5781]

Omg there they are

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

love to hear these seldom told history lessons

[@GoldandGunpowder]

as do i

[@TheRiverPirate13]

Enjoyed the video mate! As a Pirate I have set foot on New Providence island 10 different occasions over the years! Many times dressed in Pirate garb! The spot that Fort Nassau once stood is now occupied by Royal Bahamian Colonial Hotel which was built by Henry Flagler. You see a recreation of the fort in the series "Black Sails". The only surviving part of that fort is the well. A lot of the present waterfront is just fill dredged from Nassau Harbour. They have an awesome Pirate museum there and plus a craft brewery called "Pirates Republic Brewery". The distillery is named after a pirate by the name of John Watling and Graycliff hotel and Cigar factory is also claimed to be named after a pirate. So much history!

[@owr7702]

just found this channel and gotta say it is truly a hidden perl in this ocean that the internet has become

[@bundakjugi6562]

Yep i love pirate history

[@swayback7375]

0:47 my god, imagine coming all that way, wearing those hot clothes the whole way, then naming the place freedom and not just running around naked? I mean seriously

[@ycplum7062]

Sid Mieir's Pirates! Best pirate game ever!

[@Marcelo-ix2tq]

God, this channel is such a gem. I love everything you show here

[@DeanGoose]

Thank you! First time seeing so in depth videos on piracy

[@GoldandGunpowder]

its history that deserves it

[@Ravishrex1]

Love the art work !

[@John-115]

Great work

[@nicolejennings3339]

Here to pay respects to Henry Jennings

[@jaysonspann8042]

I love this channel! Also great use of the Sid Master Piratesm game sound effects 🤣 i loved that game and play it all the time as a kid

[@gabrielzwyghuizen]

Amazing content! I’ve been binging ALL of your videos as I am running a Dungeons & Dragons pirate/ocean campaign! Blessings

[@antonbrakhage490]

I tend to feel that portraying the Nassau pirates as either egalitarian revolutionaries or conservatives is oversimplistic. They were a diverse group, and their views weren't all interchangeable. And I daresay its a mistake to try to fit Golden Age pirates too closely into modern political paradigms of any kind, given that most of the major political identities and ideologies of today didn't exist then.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

the liberal and conservative paradigm definitely existed during the 1700s and during the nassau period - it just didnt mean the same thing as it does today. hopefully the video portrayed the ideological diversity of nassau to satisfaction, the native core were puritan democrats whereas a vast majority of the jamaican privateers that moved in were jacobite conservatives. ofcourse, it should be mentioned that what all of the pirates ultimately wanted was money or their own pleasure - that was their prime ideology

[@davidhlnda]

An interesting response.

[@setituptoblowitup]

Love the name of this channel,🏴‍☠️🔥⛏️

[@docwho2828]

A channel about Pirates??? My dreams come true!!!❤

[@Ravishrex1]

Excited to see a new piece .

[@GoldandGunpowder]

As am I

[@yourbestfriend8908]

Congrats on 1k!!!!!!! Can you do a video on how pirate ships were built like what methods they used and who built them! love the vid btw!

[@GoldandGunpowder]

I might do a video on that in the far future

[@JLamont45]

Not many were built. Most were stolen. They did tend to prefer sloops or faster, less water displacement type ships because of maneuverability and shallow ports at home…..

[@ThePoliticrat]

Love the SMP music.

[@adamwilson9232]

Have you ever considered a video about how pirates would sell goods?

[@waynemcauliffe2362]

Cheers for that mate

[@midnightgreen8319]

Damn this is a great video!!

[@GoldandGunpowder]

thank you sir

[@alexrexaros9837]

Were there any pirate hunters during the Golden Age of Piracy? If so, who were they and how did they operate?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

There were individual warships patrolling the Caribbean, but they were rather few since permanent navies were expensive. It was more effective to employ privateers as pirate hunters. For the English, this didn't really become a thing until 1718 when Hornigold and his chums became pirate hunters. The Spanish also employed the Guarda de Costa - Coast Guard - who really just boarded anyone on a whim. This is a complicated topic deserving of its own future video.

[@spirospagiatis4731]

First of all, congratulations for 1000 subs👍👍👍. Second, can you make a video about sea dogs like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Cavendish, George Somers, James Lancaster the Sixth and Piet Pieterszoon Hein in an other video?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Thank you Spiros. In the far future, maybe next year, I will move on to the 1500s and make videos on everything pirate from the Sea Dogs, Sea Beggars and Barbary Pirates

[@anthonydaniels7712]

Ever think we were born after the fun times

[@pokemontrainerbubbamiibria4866]

This is pirate 🏴‍☠️ history!!!! of pirates of the Caribbean

[@danherrick5785]

Wow - this was some serious history telling - fricken awesome stuff!!! How the heck did you learn all this!!!! I suppose it's those new fangled thing called books? Never actually could read - so I never picked um up...

[@DenziahMcIntosh]

That's because most of all the pirates history in Nassau is only found in places very close to the Bahamas

[@setituptoblowitup]

Love that place 🏴‍☠️🦜🦅

[@merafirewing6591]

Either way, Pirate Republic, Pirate Commonwealth or The Fly Gang are good names. Well Commonwealth sounds even better.

[@chestersabajo5527]

What happened to the Arawak people from the Bahamas .i am full blooded Arawak from Suriname, South America

[@GoldandGunpowder]

spaniards killed pretty much all of the island natives as soon as they took over

[@chestersabajo5527]

@@GoldandGunpowder i hope they retake their land one day .Europe would be nothing without white people or China without Chinese people

[@jackrice2770]

Because the American native population had been isolated from Europe and Asia, they had no immunity to various diseases endemic to those continents. When Euopeans came into contact with the native populations, these diseases. espeically smallpox, but also measles, diptheria, typhus, and many others, killed nearly all of them. Hisorians have tried to estimate the numbers, but it's very difficult to say just how many of the original inhabitants of the Americas died from these diseases. There are contemporary accounts of Europeans finding entire towns and villages with either no population left, or a tiny number of survivors. The remains of large cities have lately been found in the jungles of Central and South America that appear to have been depopulated and abandoned shortly after First Contact. It must be remembered that the pathogens actually traveled ahead of the 'colonizers', so that in many cases the need to engage in combat to take over native land was unnecessary, as there just weren't enough of the original inhabitants to put up resistance. It should be said here that the Europeans had no idea that they were causing this devastaton, as they knew nothing about how diseases were spread, and these diseases had simply been an accepted fact of life for them for thousands of years. All this being said, there were centuries of guerilla warfare in some areas, conducted by Natives against European encroachment. If a native people were unfortunate enough to live in an area rich with gold and silver, they were much more likely to be displaced. Many native groups fled into more remote, inaccessible regions where the Europeans had little incentive to go. Thus, there are a number of their descendants still in existance, which seems to be rather miraculous, considering the devastation First Contact had on their ancestors.

[@davidhlnda]

Great work but you should consider when discussing the ‘1st settlers’’, or as you say ‘the people who came 1st’ who were most likely Arawak and Caribs, as well as escaped Africans such as Maroons and Garifuna. The Garifuna story especially would be an excellent topic For yr videos

[@sanderssonjankins6251]

11:04 Sid Meier's Pirates town music sighted off port, skipper!

[@dutchman7216]

Do you have any videos about the Pirate Museum in Nassau?

[@foxxtherated-xexorcist2799]

What's the trumpet song that plays in the background? I simply must know, great video 🤘🦊🏴‍☠️

[@GoldandGunpowder]

at which point is it playing?

[@SuperrrStaggie]

Maybe a bit late, but I believe most of the music in the video is from the video-game Sid Meier's Pirates! Man that music takes me back 😄

[@connielangum4578]

Arrrrrrgghhh!!

[@clevermcgenericname891]

Do you know if the Jolly Roger on display at the Pirate Museum in St. Augustine is actually a real pirate relic?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

they say its from 1850

[@clevermcgenericname891]

@@GoldandGunpowder thank you. I wonder if the crew that flew it were inspired by the pop culture pirate history of the time to design their banner. That would be crazy.

[@JLamont45]

!Woops!!

[@Neo-Femme]

Some of the information is incorrect but overall I really liked this video.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

what information was incorrect? i'm not trying to be confrontational, i'm just curious, since my goal is to have these videos be as truthful as possible. If you can source/prove your statements(I include all the sources in the video description) I'm willing to pin a post or make a pinned post with the inaccuracies - this is something I've done on other videos, see the sloop video .)

[@Neo-Femme]

@@GoldandGunpowder It was first settled in 1648, not 1644. Also, Bermuda expelled their puritans not Barbados. Source - An actual Bahamian. This information can easily be found online.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Ah sorry, I mixed up Bermuda with Barbados. If you make a separate comment with the information and give proper sources I will pin it

[@dubuyajay9964]

What's "turtling?" Fishing/hunting for turtles?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

yes

[@charmingman20]

I was right it was Nassau! :D

[@GoldandGunpowder]

that you were lad

[@CosplayZine]

What is your source for Blackbeard owning a plantation while being a privateer/pirate? Perhaps he grew up on one but that seems to be more an assumption than fact of his current doings during that time. Any legal activity would be risky for a pirate, but his families plantation could have gotten raided by pirates by that time and may have been what lead Thatch to be a pirate himself for all we know.

[@Lotus_1701]

Im surprised when the government heard of it at the very first just come in with a bunch of ships and did a cannon barage

[@volk4523]

My stepfamily are direct descendants of Sir Francis William Drake's brother, and for that my youngest brother is named after him as Drake Francis-William (last name).

[@aleksmadrigal5918]

you ever play blackwake?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

yeah i played it when it first came out

[@AW-hg3pc]

for all its flaws Black sails gets alot of things right, or rather hints at alot of history. Like the first seasons of Vikings i think its a good balance of reality and fiction to serve as a gateway to the real history. Both shows like HBO Rome before it at least feel authentic.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Pirate nests - because we’re so cold-blooded we lay eggs and hatch wee cold-blooded deck hands …

[@nameynamename3758]

Don't know if this is obvious, but who was the biggest target of piracy during the golden age, and what's the ratio? I'm gonna assume the Spanish but how much was each faction attacked compared to others?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Spanish due to the fact that they controlled a lot more territory. After that English and French

[@nameynamename3758]

@@GoldandGunpowder What would you say the ratio was? And you're saying this as though they eased up on the Spanish, did they? I'm just saying because I've looked this stuff up and got no answers.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

i dont know the ratio

[@robnewman6101]

How Tragedy!

[@pjccwest]

☠️

[@patriciasmith7705]

Your missing Wilma

[@kingofthefleetians7569]

So is it pronounced nas-ow or nos-ar

[@dennisdoherty5417]

The background sound effects are very annoying, otherwise very informative

[@Unchained_202]

“Law and order restored” funny how the pirates were free while the people fighting for a nation were just pawns being restricted, and oppressed by taxes and laws that kept their leaders in power.

[@deonsmith6171]

Didn’t even mention the actual first Bahamians well to think of it they were not the first because it wasn’t named the Bahamas bck then it was guanahani locals were indians 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@conrad1755]

Relegalize piracy

[@user-nk2lc4yp7g]

Black people build the Bahamas

[@donaldhysa4836]

I dont know why you always feel the need to explain that blacks in the Carbeans were not africans and didn't speak african languages. Like we can figure that many blacks were born and raised in the Carabean you dont need to spell it out every time

[@spartan-s013]

Flying Gang a cooperation of pirate companies??? lol no, you know nothing then and that's is simply a lie. It was just a gang, cooperation of pirate captains. It's funny too that you mention only english pirate captrains here but you ''forgetting'' about Oliver Levasseur...hmmm looks very aimed and poorly informed

[@GoldandGunpowder]

nooo he forgot to mention one of the dozens of captains active in the area!!! are you autistic?

[@connielangum4578]

Or an idiot!!