Who were the privateers who helped win American independence--and what were their motives? We talk with Kylie Hulbert from Hampden-Sydney College about her book, The Untold War At Sea: America's Revolutionary Privateers. Some 52,000 men served on between 1500 and two thousand privateering voyages, sailing after British vessels in the Caribbean, off the coast of Brazil, and in European waters. How effective were the privateers? What motivated these men to sail? ho financed the voyages?