Per UC San Diego's special collections library, Morgan's main gripe was being described as an indentured servant. He held all of Portobello for ransom, demanding 340,000 pesos from Panama City's governor in exchange for Morgan not setting the entire town on fire. In 1655, Morgan and his fierce buccaneers aided England's effort to seize Jamaica, which had been in Spain's possession since Christopher Columbus claimed it in 1494.

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They also placed flaming palm leaves underneath him, burned his face, set his hair on fire, placed heavy stones on his joints, and starved him within an inch of his life.The Captain Morgan logo is a crimson-coated swashbuckler with one foot on a cask, or, depending how drunk you are, it could look like a blurry evil Santa Claus stepping on a rotund elf. Contemporary records indicate that someone with Morgan's name who came from his native Wales was absolutely sold into servitude. Morgan's own accounts of his exploits were far less salacious, but as the BBC pointed out, the captain had "very skittish political backers" and might have wanted to avoid gruesome descriptions.

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In an alternative account summarized by the University of Georgia's Classic Journal, he went to the Caribbean voluntarily to help Oliver Cromwell conquer Spanish colonies. With partial funding from the Captain Morgan rum company, archaeologist Frederick Hanselmann led an expedition to find Morgan's sunken ships.Hanselmann's team believed they'd found Satisfaction, and the rum company boasted about their partnership in a press release.