State-backed piracy carved out the colonial footholds in the Caribbean

Evidence

Privateers were authorized by governments to raid enemy shipping during war-time, and they were the common recourse of nations whose formal navies were weak. — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 200 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European war spread to the Caribbean and reshaped the colonial conflict; The colonial state was equipped to police natives but not wayward Europeans; Caribbean sugar colonies drove the rise of Atlantic capitalism — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 75 (+5 more)

Related

• State-sponsored piracy opened the Caribbean to French and English colonial settlement (similarity 0.86)
• Privateers operated as government-authorized raiders for nations with weak formal navies. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Privateers operated as government-authorized raiders for nations with weak formal navies. #expands (0.70) — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 200
• European war spread to the Caribbean and reshaped the colonial conflict #expands (0.55)
• The colonial state was equipped to police natives but not wayward Europeans #expands (0.50)
• Caribbean sugar colonies drove the rise of Atlantic capitalism #expands (0.40) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 75
• The Caribbean was the primal scene of the Africa-West encounter #expands (0.40)
• Colonial archives simultaneously conceal and reveal state investments #expands (0.35)
• The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms #expands (0.30) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 28
• Black resistance in the Caribbean shifted political power but incomplete autonomy #complicates (0.30)