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"Buccaneer of the Caribbean" from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates.[1]
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors[further explanation needed] particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625, their heyday was from the Restoration in 1660 until about 1688, during a time when governments in the Caribbean area were not strong enough to suppress them.[2]
Originally the name applied to the landless hunters of wild boars and cattle in the largely uninhabited areas of Tortuga and Hispaniola. The meat they caught was smoked over a slow fire in little huts the French called boucans to make viande boucanée – jerked meat or jerky – which they sold to the corsairs who preyed on the (largely Spanish) shipping and settlements of the Caribbean. Eventually the term was applied to the corsairs and (later) privateers themselves, also known as the Brethren of the Coast. Although corsairs, also known as filibusters or freebooters, were largely lawless, privateers were nominally licensed by the authorities – first the French, later the English and Dutch – to prey on the Spanish, until their depredations became so severe they were suppressed.[3]
^Pyle, Howard (1921). Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact and Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main. New York: Harper & Brothers. Archived from the original on 2 October 2008. Retrieved 9 January 2017 – via web.archive.org.
^Clark, Sir George (1956). The Later Stuarts, 1660–1714. The Oxford History of England: Oxford University Press. pp. 326–329. ISBN 0-19-821702-1.
^Kemp, P. K.; Lloyd, Christopher (1965), The Buccaneers, Tower Publications, Inc., pp. 5–7. First published in the United States by St. Martin's Press, New York [1960] as Brethren of the Coast: Buccaneers of the South Seas. Includes a critical list of sources.
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