During the Renaissance, society considered pirates as dirty, heartless, and evil. Pirates deliberately tried to scare their enemies. They designed their ship's flags with evil images, including a skeleton stabbing a heart. Blackbeard, one of the most famous pirates, braided his hair to look like devil's horns and carried his cutlass in his mouth to make him look evil. In fact, pirates possessed qualities that society valued and pirates were similar to other people in Renaissance society in numerous ways.
Pirate life was not very easy, but it had a well-organized leadership, just like other ship workers. On board the ship, the system of government was both dictatorship and democracy. The leader was the captain. He made all the rules and he had the final say on attack. …
