Debt, impressment, primogeniture, and the brutal merchant ship: the push and pull that made the black flag a rational choice.
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The Push and the PullWhat conditions had to hold for an ordinary sailor to reckon that piracy was the better bet? We weigh the forces that pushed men off the merchant deck against the ones that pulled them under the black flag.