Comments on: Sea Story ‘Bermuda Privateer’ Released https://bernews.com/2018/10/sea-story-bermuda-privateer-released/ Bermuda's #1 source for 24/7 breaking news, photos & videos Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:26:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 By: Jonathan Land Evans https://bernews.com/2018/10/sea-story-bermuda-privateer-released/#comment-4538077 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:52:54 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=807756#comment-4538077 Privateers were only authorised during wartime, and only to act against the vessels of countries against whom one was at war. Privateering was perfectly legal under both domestic and international law. Quite a few black Bermudians, both slave and free, would have benefited economically from privateering.

]]> By: VinceD https://bernews.com/2018/10/sea-story-bermuda-privateer-released/#comment-4534837 Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:00:28 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=807756#comment-4534837 Privateers were essentially PIRATES with government protection in order to pursue less than legal goals in wealth, dominance, and control of the seas. Being a privateer was only legal in relation to the countries you had papers for and in this case would be the British Empire.

Bermuda being a British Colony was full of these Privateers/Pirates and during that time Blacks/Colored people were enslaved and the Privateer/Pirate, did not have to pay them for their work on the seas, hence the generational wealth in many white families today!

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