April 24, 2025 - Pirate Sam Mason

🏴‍☠️ Sam’s Take: “Tariffs and Tumult: Echoes of Economic Warfare”

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Post published:April 24, 2025
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April 24, 2025 Ahoy, mates. The seas of commerce are churning once more. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sounded the alarm, warning that President Trump’s recent tariff policies are…

Carter F. Smith

Retired Criminal Investigator, Criminal Justice Professor

After 22 years in military and federal law enforcement, I turned to the archives—where I found Sam Mason, a Revolutionary War veteran turned river pirate, waiting in the footnotes of forgotten trials. My work bridges past and present, tracing how crime, justice, and power collided on the frontier. I’ve written on gangs, organized crime, and early American law in both academic journals and books like From Patriot to Pirate and The Trial of Sam Mason. Mason was no myth—just a man shaped by war, whiskey, and weak borders. And I’ve spent years chasing his story downstream.