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As the buccaneers of the 1660s and 1670s gave way to the pirates of the 1690s, who were followed by those of the 1710s and 1720s, pirate culture became more egalitarian and democratic over time, as elites dropped out of the business of robbery by sea and common seamen gained greater control over the operation of pirate ships. I might add that the pirates who settled in Madagascar were only a small minority of the total pirate population between 1650 and 1730, the so-called "golden age", and that Atlantic pirates were much less involved in slave-trading than those who based themselves in the Indian Ocean. Like his histories of debt and the dawn of "everything", Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment provokes us to think. Then Nathaniel North and his pirate crew built a new settlement at Ambonavola in 1698 based on the democratic and egalitarian practices of pirate ships. [Extracted from the article]