#distribution_of_justice

Distribution of justice

Justice system used by pirates

The distribution of justice was a practice commonly adopted by pirates. Ships operated as limited democracies and imposed their ideas of justice upon the crew of the ship that they captured. After capture, the crew would be questioned as to whether they had suffered cruel or unjust treatment from the commander of the ship. Any commanders "against whom Complaint was made" would be punished or even executed. This punishment was not indiscriminately given to all ships' commanders. An "honest Fellow that never abused any Sailors" would be rewarded, and sometimes freed.

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