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It asks why individuals and communities turned to privateering and how they were affected by the enterprize Privateers were privately owned warships license! and regulated by the state to keep a portion of their raiding. In this period, a network o f small coastal communities in Nova Scotia centred on Liverpool and Shelburne responded to disastrous changes in the military and trade environment with a small fl^t of a dozen private warships which captured about sixty enemy vessels. Existing literature on privateering, mostly popular and amateur work, has interpreted this activity as the product of either patriotism or greed However a closer look indicates that %onomic necessity as the driving force The wars with Revolutionary France led to the capture of many Nova Scotia merchant ships and mariners, followed by crushing insurance rates and American encroachment o f the fisheries and lucrative West Indies trade Privateering was a response to this economic warfare that replaced Nova Scotia losses with captured enemy ships and found work for idle shipyards and seamen In a sense, it was an armed defence o f the economic markets of the Caribbean against French and American incursion. Their success founded several new fortunes and led the privateering port of Liverpool to gain greater economic and political autonomy from the provincial capital of Halifax A price was paid in lives lost to battle, storms and naval press gangs along with social disruption such as rowdy drinking and a munitions explosion in Liverpool Privateer seamen enjoyed unusual power in m ^ n g sailing decisicms and received