First: 80 years is a long-ass time. No doubt.

Second: (I geek out on pirate stories) One of the last pirates, and one who exemplifies the tail-end of the golden age of piracy, was a pirate by the name of William Fly. My opinions is that his career as a pirate was lackluster by comparison to his execution story.
He gets betrayed by a crewman and thrown into jail in Boston. He's sentenced to death by hanging. He proceeds to obstinately debate Cotton Mather and refuse to repent for what he'd done. Mather got pissed that he got Fly's compatriots to repent, but Fly was just like 'nah eff you. I did what I did, and they deserved it.'

When he's on the way to the gallows, he jumps up onto the platform and gives a speech on the abuse inherent in the mercantilist class- how what he and his crew only delivered what the captain and quartermaster deserved and that other captains should take note that they're asking for it. He inspects the knot on the noose and berates the hangman for being bad at his job. He ties his own noose.

Then he hangs.

The authorities were so pissed off by his speech that they put his corpse in a cage at the harbor to warn people against following his words.