Piracy. Many

of the colonies were infested by pirates during the latter years of the seventeenth and the earlier portion of the eighteenth centuries. In North Carolina and South Carolina and in the ports of the Spanish colonies to the south, the pirate Teach, called ‘‘ Black Beard,” made frequent ravages and was gladly received by the inhabitants of Charleston in the matter of trade. Teach’s headquarters were in North Carolina, From thence he preyed upon the Spanish po e ions in the south and traded as far north as Philadelphia, where prom invent citizens were in league with him and with Evans, another pirate. He was finally driven away by Governor Johnson, of North Carolina. In New York and along the Eastern coast the celebrated Captain Kidd terrorized the coast settlers for a number of years. Piracy was made a capital offense in the New England colonies. During the middle of the nineteenth century the American Government contended for an international declaration that the slave-trade should be treated as piracy.