Pirate ship choice and crew economy

If you were a Golden Age pirate captain choosing between a sloop, schooner, and brigantine, which would you choose and why?

The tentative preference is a schooner, chiefly because easier sail handling could reduce the crew and leave fewer people sharing a prize.

The comparison is complicated by overlap between the ship types. A schooner is tentatively favored for speed, although that part of the answer carries an explicit uncertainty. The stronger practical argument concerns sails that are easier to handle and a crew that could therefore be smaller. Fewer crew would also mean fewer shares when dividing the proceeds of a capture.