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Logwood also played an important role in the lives of 17th-century [[buccaneers]] and into the [[Golden Age of Piracy]]. Spain claimed all of Central and [[South America]] as its sovereign territory through the 17th and 18th centuries; despite this, English, Dutch, and French sailors recognized the value of logwood and set up camps to cut and collect the trees for shipment back to Europe. Spain periodically sent privateers to capture the logwood cutters – for example, [[Juan Corso]]'s 1680 cruise – sometimes in retaliation for buccaneer raids on Spanish cities.<ref name="Latimer-Buccaneers">{{cite book |last1=Latimer |first1=Jon |title=Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire |date=2009 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=9780674034037 |page=225 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_ouD5zPZL8C |accessdate=12 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Logwood cutters, now out of work, frequently joined onto pirate and buccaneer crews to raid the Spanish in return, as [[Edmund Cooke (pirate)|Edmund Cooke]] did after losing two logwood-hauling ships to the Spanish.<ref name="Marley">{{cite book |last1=Marley |first1=David |title=Daily Life of Pirates |date=2012 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, CA |isbn=9780313395635 |pages=51, 79-82, 180 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4DXv4pNi8UC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=12 January 2018 |language=en}}</ref> When Spanish forces ejected a great many logwood cutters in 1715, they flocked to [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]] and swelled the already-considerable numbers of pirates gathering there.<ref name="Sanders - If a Pirate I Must Be">{{cite book |last1=Sanders |first1=Richard |title=If a pirate I must be: the true story of Bartholomew Roberts, king of the Caribbean |date=2007 |publisher=Aurum |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iB_AAAAMAAJ |accessdate=18 September 2017 |language=en}}</ref> By the mid-1720s logwood cutters had themselves become targets of pirates such as [[Francis Spriggs]], [[Edward Low]], and [[George Lowther (pirate)|George Lowther]];<ref name="Snow">{{cite book |last1=Snow |first1=Edward Rowe |title=Pirates and buccaneers of the Atlantic coast |date=1944 |publisher=Boston, Yankee Pub. Co |location=Boston MA |url=https://archive.org/details/piratesbuccaneer00snow |accessdate=13 December 2018}}</ref> pirate captains [[Samuel Bellamy]] and [[Blackbeard]] went further, turning captured logwood-hauling [[sloop]]s into pirate vessels.<ref name="Woodard-Republic">{{cite book |last1=Woodard |first1=Colin |title=The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down |date=2008 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |location=Orlando FL |isbn=9780547415758 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Republic_of_Pirates.html?id=W5sIuoBrFwYC |accessdate=13 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref>