By the 17th and 18th centuries, however, piracy threatened European empire-building, so to curb such behavior, Britain punished the marauders and put them on display. Unlike what you may see in the best pirate movies, the life of a pirate was hard - long months, even years, on a ship amid the elements made for dirty, treacherous days and nights - but doom for a pirate was even worse.
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