Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia - David Graeber (PB) photography Sascha Delz

Sascha Delz

In this sleek

alongside scholar Christina B

to draw and scribble

the tax return form

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia - David Graeber (PB) photography Sascha DelzThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their