Pirates: An Early Test for the New Country
Posted on July 12, 2015 by jessiekratz
When Richard O’Bryen, captain of the Philadelphia ship Dauphin, penned his July 12, 1790, letter to Thomas Jefferson, he had been a captive of the Barbary pirates in Algeria for almost five years.
This letter, and others, helped bring attention to an unexpected problem the Federal Government inherited from the government under the Articles of Confederation: pirates.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2015/07/12/pirates-an-early-test-for-the-new-country/
