The Baymen were a loose band of former pirates settled as rugged frontiersmen in the inhospitable Yucatan Peninsula. They earned their dough-boys by the cutting of wood: actually a legume, called Logwood, which was used in the production of expensive dyes. This is how they operated, lived, ate, fought and suffered, all so that the European bigwigs could have their fancy clothes.Join our discord:
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Sources:
Two Voyages to Campechy - William Dampier
The Buccaneer's Realm - Benerson Little
Under the Black Flag - David Cordingly
Wafer's New Voyage - Lionel Wafer
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Logwood
3:30 How the Baymen Lived
7:10 How the Baymen Hunted
8:47 A Bayman Economy
10:19 The Yucatan Nature
13:57 Piracy and Neighbors
18:02 Outro
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