Pirate museum Nassau - Bahamas

A group of Puritan religious refugees know as the Eleutheran Adventurers founded the first permanent European settlement in the Bahamas and gave Eleuthera Island its name. Similar groups of colonizers formed governments in the Bahamas, but the secluded cays protected pirates and wreckers throughout the 17th century, these were the golden age for pirates among most well known was Sir Francis Drake and Blackbeard.