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Thomas White (pirate)
Thomas White was an English pirate who raided shipping in the Indian Ocean in the years around 1700 and settled on the north-east coast of Madagascar, where many pirates lived among the local population. He married a Malagasy woman of high rank, and their son Ratsimilaho went on to found the Betsimisaraka confederation.
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