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Pirates were once encouraged in Charles Town. During the first two decades of the eighteenth century pirates
preyed on the Spanish galleons carrying gold and other treasure from Florida to Spain. Charles Town tavern
owners and shopkeepers embraced those free-spending agents of the SWEET TRADE. However, after 1718, there
was an increase of attacks on British ships bound to and from Charles Town, plundering by the likes of
• Blackbeard & Stede Bonnet, the "Gentleman” Pirate.
• Charles Vane,
• Calico Jack Rackham & Anne Bonny
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