Sublime

Jefferson Curl

All these elements combined—an onboard democracy, with separation of powers; equitable compensation plans; insurance policies in the event of catastrophic injuries—meant that a pirate ship in the late 1600s and early 1700s operated both outside the law of European nation-states and, in a real sense, ahead of those laws. The pirates were vanguards a

Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.