Pirate Islands and Other Haunts

• Port Royal in Jamaica prospered as a pirate town with pirated treasure, the governors even welcomed them as protection from the French and Spanish
• After Henry Morgan returned from his arrest in England, pirates were no longer welcome and the town became better known for hanging pirates
• Madagascar was also a haven for pirates but faded by the early 1700s
• Woodes Rogers appointment as Governor of the Bahamas in 1718 marked the end of Nassau and the Bahamas as a pirate headquarters