OK so this part is where a lot of the actual real-world pirate lore comes in. This ideology that exists in-universe as "Joe's ideas" are inspired by the ideology of golden-age pirate Sam Bellamy, who perceived his own piracy as an act of political defiance, as he wrote: "I am a free prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who has a hundred sail of ships at sea and an army of 100,000 men in the field; and this my conscience tells me!" It's also kind of poetic in a way, that Bellamy's flagship, the Whydah Galley, was a liberated/stolen slave ship, taken from the slavers and repurposed to carry free sailors.

Another thing about me is that in eighth grade, I played a pirate named "Bellamy" in my school's Hebrew rendition of the play Peter Pan. פירטים כאן באים...