John,

I'm not sure that thieving from a thief is an honorable undertaking. After 
all, Drake did not return those "riches" to the native people, but just 
passed them on to other people who didn't deserve them.

Anne


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From: "John Philip Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: Pirates and Privateers


> Drake is considered a war hero and explorer in England. What he did was to
> fight against a Spanish force that at the time was oppressing, stealing 
> the
> gold, silver, and other resources, of the indigenous natives, Aztecs and
> Incas. So who is the more guilty party. Drake circumnavigated the planet
> while the Spanish were busy trying to pillage the resources. Drake was
> knighted for this exploit and also for his efforts, his uncle's Sir John
> Hawkins and the rest of the English Admirality in 1588. Beating the 
> Spanish
> and saving the world from the Inqusition of Torqueamda and the Spanish
> Catholic Church shold also receive a little mention.
> John Philip Adams
> Texas
>
> On Nov 2, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Sharon Peery wrote:
>
>> This strikes me as anachronistic.  Sir Francis Drake was
>> a pirate too, you know.  One of the ways early govern-
>> ments dealt with insufficient funds to create an adequate
>> navy was to issue letters of marque and to set the whole
>> thing up as a free enterprise.  ( With all of the private
>> contractors presently operating in Iraq, we seem to be returning to
>> that era.)
>>
>> As for Nat Turner, Gabriel etc., just how were slaves
>> who objected to slavery supposed to respond?  There
>> were certainly no legal routes for them to pursue, and
>> they sometimes responded with what seems to us
>> "mindless violence," in the great tradition of the European peasant
>> uprisings.  I too am a fan of Douglas
>> Egerton's book on Gabriel's rebellion, and it should be
>> noted that Mr. Egerton contends that Gabriel was very
>> much influenced by the rhetoric of the Jeffersonian
>> party around the 1800 elections.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Pemberton" <[log in to unmask]
>> >
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 1:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Nat Turner Rebellion
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