[Well, then this was one big mystery that would have to be solved - which also provided Barbossa an enemy to defeat on the side. That might have been fun if not for the fact that his ship was probably gone, and he couldn't take the battle to the seas. He'd still have his sword, though... Hopefully.]

Appealing accommodations still don't beat havin' true freedom. Ye know we're just as much in shackles as any poor unlucky prisoner locked in the brig of a ship sailing off to no man's land.

[And for that, he'd have to make an effort to escape. There was always a way somehow - he managed to escape death, after all.]

Perhaps it's precisely because of these... niceties that we're given that there hasn't been a bigger outbreak, mister...?