In late 1827, the crew of a Brazilian slaver, the Defensor de Pedro, mutinied and became pirates. The article follows the narrative of their attacks on ships, including the British Morning Star off Ascension Island in February 1828 and the American merchant Topaz. The Spanish authorities in Cádiz captured most of the crew and tried and executed them. Their captain, Benito de Soto, was tried and hanged in Gibraltar. Using trial papers the article reconstructs the events. It then examines how reworkings of the narrative have changed mass murderers and rapists into popular heroes, both in the general literature on piracy (e.g. Phillip Gosse and Basil Lubbock) and in more recent academic literature and in public celebrations. It argues that this has resulted from misunderstanding and misusing the theories of social banditry and working-class revolt put forward by Eric Hobsbawm and Marcus Rediker, and from commercialisation.

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Defensor de Pedro (1828–30) 的海盗和海盗传奇的消毒

1827 年底，巴西奴隶贩子 Defensor de Pedro 的船员叛变并成为海盗。这篇文章讲述了他们袭击船只的故事，包括 1828 年 2 月阿森松岛附近的英国晨星号和美国商船黄玉号。加的斯的西班牙当局俘虏了大部分船员并审判并处决了他们。他们的船长贝尼托·德索托在直布罗陀受审并被绞死。文章使用试验论文重建了事件。然后，它考察了叙事的改写如何将大规模杀人犯和强奸犯变成了流行的英雄，无论是在关于盗版的一般文献（例如 Phillip Gosse 和 Basil Lubbock）中，还是在最近的学术文献和公共庆祝活动中。