Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by activity]
6. seamen
7. pirates

Anotations

Scope note:

Sea adventurers of the Caribbean and Pacific around South America who attacked and robbed Spanish ships and settlements during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The term is generally attributed to Alexander Exquemelin who published a work on these privateers, or pirates, in 1684.