1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuffy missed in History Class from house works 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: dot Com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: Frog and I'm Tracy Wilson. Hey, you know what, I 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: know what. Everybody loves Piro, but he does love Pirates. 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: We mentioned in our last episode that we're doing some 6 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: things a little bit different and doing several update episodes 7 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: in a row. It's my fault what trump Jacks is 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: a busy lady. I have a little time that I'm 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: taking off work, and so we are doing this that 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: we continue to have episodes. Well, I'm gone and listener 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: Andy pointed us to a story in Smithsonian Magazines February 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: fourteen issue which was called The Last Days of black Beard. 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,639 Speaker 1: It's by Colin Woodward, who has written four books, including 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 1: The Republic of Pirates, being the true and surprising story 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: of the Caribbean Pirates and the man who brought them down. 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: Uh And that one's also the basis for the NBC 17 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: show Crossbones, which stars John Malkovich's black Beard, and that 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: premiere short really uh So. In this article, which we 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 1: will link to in Shore Notes, Woodward writes about some 20 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: of the newest discoveries about black Beard. And these have 21 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 1: been gleaned from lots of archaeological and archival research. So 22 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: intrepid people crawling through archives, reading all kinds of shipping 23 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: documents and manifests and basically police reports from the eighteenth 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: century have discovered new things about the life and death 25 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: of black Beard. One of these stories is actually unearthed 26 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: in two thousand eight and it involves the last two prizes. 27 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: Prizes is maybe a generous word, but the last two 28 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: ships that Blackbeard took before his final battle and death, 29 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: which took place on November seventeen eighteen, and these were 30 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: two French merchant ships, Latois d'Or and the rose Emilee, 31 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: and black Beard took them with a faint He and 32 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: his crew surprised and overwhelmed the crew of one. In 33 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: order to turn it against the other. He faked like 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: he was going at one of them and then speedily 35 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: made a turn and went to the other one instead, 36 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: took it over, and then used both ships to go 37 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: back after the first one. This all happened in August eighteen, 38 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: and that was about three months after the incident outside 39 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: Charleston that Katie and Sarah talk about in our original 40 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: episode on black Beard. At this point he had already 41 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: grounded the Queen Anne's Revenge and so he was doing 42 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: all of his rating in one of his sloops, and 43 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: so he did this, you know, two ships simultaneously. Heist 44 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: with a much smaller vessel than the ships that he 45 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: was taking over. And Woodwards article also supports the idea 46 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: that black Beard never actually killed anyone, which is a 47 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: much discussed element of this historical figures life, at least 48 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: not until that last bloody battle in which his throw 49 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: was cut. He also writes about how black Beard got 50 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 1: the Queen Anne's Revenge in the first place and what 51 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: happened to its original cargo of slaves, and he fills 52 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: in a three month gap in black beards known history, 53 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: which is just after King George the First declared a 54 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 1: pardon for all pirates who surrendered by September of seventeen eighteen. 55 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: The two prevailing theories were that he made a name 56 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: for himself in the Gulf of Mexico as the Great Devil, 57 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: and the heat just basically laid low for a while 58 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: to avoid capture. Woodward found handwritten papers in the British 59 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: archives confirming that it was the former uh probably he 60 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: was in pursuit of the Southeast Company's flagship, the Royal Prince. 61 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: And there's a lot more detail about black Beards last 62 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: Days in Woodward's article, and will link to that article 63 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: in the show notes. Yeah, we didn't want to just 64 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: basically summarize an article for your benefit in its entirety. 65 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: Uh As this update. We also got an email from 66 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: a listener named Carry following the first of our Unearthed episodes, 67 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: and in that episode, we talked about the announcement from 68 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: the Underwater Archaeology branch of the North Carolina Department of 69 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: Cultural Resources, and they announced that they were intending to 70 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: salvage every single scrap of the Queen Anne's Revenge by 71 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: the end of which is this year. Carry let us 72 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: know that they had already brought up more than a 73 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: quarter of a million artifacts and a lot of them 74 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: are now preserved and on display at the North Carolina 75 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: Maritime Museum in Beaufort. And we'll take a little and 76 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: break here before we go to the original episode. So 77 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 1: now we're going to turn you over to Katie and 78 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: Sarah with our original episode about black Beard, which originally 79 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: came out in two thousand and nine. Hello, and Welcome 80 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Katie Lambert and I'm Sarah Downie. 81 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: So Katie, I've always really liked pirates in high school 82 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: and my friends and I eased to have kind of 83 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: good pirate jokes. I don't go to conventions or anything. No, no, no, 84 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: I actually haven't even been a pirate for Halloween, but 85 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: I have. Really I do like them a lot, and 86 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: of course one of my favorites is Blackbeard. Well, I've 87 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: got you covered because the one Halloween I was a pirate, 88 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: and then this past Halloween, I was Abraham Lincoln and 89 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: wore a big black Beard, but mine did not have 90 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: candlewicks in it, unlike black Beard. Blackbeard was one of 91 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: the most feared pirates in history, and it's no wonder 92 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: with the smoking fuses and the sashes full of pistols 93 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: and cutlasses, pistols across the chests. He definitely mastered the 94 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: art of intimidation, and he did a lot to keep 95 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: that reputation up. He wanted people fearing him, although we 96 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: don't have any evidence that he ever killed anyone who 97 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: wasn't trying to kill him. But when you're fearsome pirate, 98 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: that's not exactly the kind of rumor you want to 99 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: spread around. The intimidation kind of saves you a lot 100 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: of work. You you just fire a few warning shots 101 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: and the ship gets handed over to you. You don't 102 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: have to go through the trouble of actually fighting and swashbuckling. 103 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 1: So every story that spreads around, like black Beer slicing 104 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: off a passenger's finger when he wouldn't give him his ring, 105 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: that all builds up to the great Blackbeard legend. But 106 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: of course Blackbeard wasn't always a pirate, and he obviously 107 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: had another name. He was born probably in Bristol, England, 108 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: although that's debated around sixteen ninety as Edward Teach or 109 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: possibly Edward Thatch. No one's quite sure, which will be 110 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: a theme in Blackbeard's life. Somebody who's so surrounded in legend, 111 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of conflicting information about him. 112 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: So Teach enlisted as a privateer for the British in 113 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: the War of Spanish Succession, which went from seventeen o 114 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: one to seventeen thirteen. Privateers were right on the cusp 115 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: of legal The British government obviously wanted to have as 116 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: big of a navy as possible, but they could enhance 117 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: it a little bit with privateers, which were allowed to 118 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: sack French and Spanish ships and take a share of 119 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: the booty for themselves, which would help you develop your 120 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: pirrating fills. But of course the war comes to an 121 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: end eventually and privateers are no longer allowed to go 122 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: around sacking French and Spanish ships, and there are a 123 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: lot of people out of work, and some of them 124 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: end up turning to piracy. And the golden age of 125 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: piracy was the late seventeenth to the early eighteen centuries, 126 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: and as far as America goes, there have been a 127 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: bunch of laws passed by the British Parliament which had 128 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: made smuggling something that was a bit more desirable because 129 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: British imports were so expensive British taxes, right, you could 130 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: buy things so much cheaper from a pirate than you 131 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: could from them. So they would attack merchant ships carrying grain, molasses, rum, rope, tools, ammunition, 132 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: pretty much everything, and go ahead and sell it to 133 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: the colonists. And because North Carolina's outer banks have shallow 134 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: sounds and inlets, it was a pirate's favorite hideout place, 135 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: which is where black Beard established his home base. But 136 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: that wasn't until seventeen eighteen, and before that he had 137 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: to get in some more pirate training. He did, and 138 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: he did that with Captain Benjamin Hornegal in the Caribbean. 139 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: So in black Beard's sort of apprenticeship, almost with Hornegald, 140 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: they depart together and plunder a bunch of Spanish and 141 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: British ships of their coco and cordwood, sugar, rum, molasses, 142 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: all of these useful things. It's not so much the gold, 143 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: treasure and jewels, which of course is what you think 144 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: of when you think of black beard buried treasure, but 145 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: you might just be finding rum and sugar instead. Yeah, 146 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 1: and during this time, Teach gets his first captain c 147 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: of a small sloop and then the big guns come 148 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: out when Hornegal's fleet attacks a French slave ship called 149 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: the Concorde that was bound for Martinique, and Teach makes 150 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: this his flagship and renames it Queen NaN's Revenge. And 151 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: it only had fourteen guns to start with, so he 152 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: added a bunch to make it up to forty, because 153 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: you know you need your guns when you're a pirate. 154 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: It's more than eighty feet long their three masts, and 155 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: he also installs a cannon, and Teach probably took this 156 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: ship with his classic intimidation methods. Rather than a bloody fight, 157 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 1: It's likely he just fired some warning shots and hoisted 158 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: up the pirate flag and you know, the guy's surrender. 159 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: They don't want any trouble with Blackbeard. But the captain 160 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: of the Concorde also reported when he got back to 161 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: France that Teach gave him a sloop to finish transporting 162 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: his cargo of slaves, which I was surprised to hear that. 163 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: I always imagined pirates making you walk the plank, and 164 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: but that sounded very gentleman ling, we thought. And Horna 165 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: Gold couldn't be Blackbeard's teacher forever because after the war, 166 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: the British government wanted to get rid of all their pirates, 167 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: so they got an officer named Wood's Rogers and hired 168 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: him as the governor of the Bahamas and told him 169 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: he'd better get rid of the pirates. So he said 170 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: he would grant pardons to pirates who agreed to walk 171 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: the straight and narrow, and Hornigold is one of the 172 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: ones who agreed, and he became a pirate hunter. But 173 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: that's okay with black Beard. By now because he's really 174 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 1: struck off on his own and starts patrolling the Virginia 175 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: and Carolina coast for his reign of terror from seventeen 176 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen eighteen. So we've already mentioned that the Outer 177 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: Banks is a fantastic place for pirates just because of 178 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: how it's designed, but it was also a great place 179 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 1: for black Beard himself because he met a lovely corrupt 180 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: politician by the name of Charles Eden there who would 181 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,719 Speaker 1: allow him clemency in exchange for very generous bribes. So, 182 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: in addition to the excellent geography of North Carolina and 183 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: the corrupt governor um he's, black Beard actually ends up 184 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,239 Speaker 1: being kind of a folk hero. The people of North Carolina. 185 00:10:54,480 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 1: They're not the wealthy rice growers or tobacco grow ors 186 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 1: like South Carolina or Virginia, so they're more okay with 187 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: this deal where they get essentially duty free goods from 188 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: black Beard in exchange for sort of letting him letting 189 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: him hang in the Outer Banks. And the folk hero 190 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: stuff also comes from black Beard's challenge to the oppressive authority. 191 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: He's lauded for sticking a hot poker into the eye 192 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: of a British official, which sounds pretty awful, but I 193 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: feel that that's a running theme and all the stuff 194 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: that we've done about gangsters and outlaws in any way, 195 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: part of it is public opinion of them being the 196 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: hero who's the only one who's willing to go up 197 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: against corrupt authority. But it also assumes that that opinion 198 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: always turns at some point the the outlaw does something 199 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 1: which just pushes the reputation over the edge. And for 200 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: black Beard, this is in May seventeen eighteen in Charleston. 201 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: So with four vessels and as many as four hundred 202 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: pyre its, black Beard captures eight or nine ships coming 203 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: into and out of Charleston over about a week, and 204 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 1: he holds the cruise of the ship's hostage along with 205 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: their passengers and passengers, their kids on board, women on board. 206 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: And Blackbeard demands a chest of medicine in exchange for 207 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: the lives of his passengers, but Charleston takes a while 208 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: the pony up yes, and in the meantime, the pirates 209 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: have decided they're not going to get it, and they've 210 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: set all the citizens up to be hanged. Like preparations 211 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: are underway. They're about to die and Charleston eventually comes 212 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: up with the ransom and gets their people back, but 213 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 1: not before the pirates have taken all of their clothing 214 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: and jewelry. Yeah, they returned to shore almost naked as 215 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: the outraged description is sent back to England. But all 216 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: office goes down pretty quickly, and within a week of 217 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 1: the Charleston hostage situation, the Queen Ann's Revenge is grounded. 218 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: Honestly and bar near the entrance to present day Beaufort Inlet, 219 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: and it's likely that Blackbeard beached this on purpose. He 220 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: knew how to sail a ship and how to scurry 221 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: around through the outer bank, so it's unlikely that he 222 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: would accidentally ground his ship. Um, it's possible he was 223 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: considering some kind of retirement, or at least at least 224 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: trying to dismand this group of four pirates and break 225 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: him up a little bit. Some people say he ma 226 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: ruined a bunch of pirates on one of the sand 227 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: bars when he left, and then took provisions from one 228 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: of the other ships and got out of there. In 229 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: addition to the black hate at Charleston, black Beard by 230 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: this point had captured something like fifty ships and he 231 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: was also charging tolls for other people ships to make 232 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: it through Pamlico Sound. So things were beginning to come 233 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: to a head. And while North Carolina and Charles Eden 234 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: were pretty okay with the pirateing money off the whole 235 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: situation right to the rich, Virginia planters and South Carolina 236 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: planters were not, and they appealed to the Governor of Virginia, 237 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: Alexander spots Would to do something about it, and he 238 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: engages Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy to hunt 239 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: down black Beard. And it's not as hard as it 240 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: sounds to find black Beard. You know, you'd think it 241 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: would be difficult to find a pirate, right, not if 242 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: he's throwing the biggest pirate party known to man on 243 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: Ocracoke Island, which I would kind of like to be 244 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: invited to. I don't know, it might sound worth fun 245 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: than it really was. Drinking, womanizing, and pirates from all 246 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: over the world were invited to come, and come they 247 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: did and made a complete spectacle out of themselves. So 248 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: during this drunken pirate shindig, Maynard shows up with his 249 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: loops intending to kill or capture Blackbeard, and the pirates 250 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: are aware that Maynard is there, but they're trapped between 251 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: this island and a sandbar. So they prepare themselves over 252 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: the night, and well accounts they Blackbeard was very calm. 253 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: His pirates were starting to get worried. Yeah, they were 254 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: freaking out a little bit. He kept drinking everyone else 255 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: went out and put sand on the decks in case 256 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: there was blood, and so blankets and water in case 257 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: there were fires, and began preparations for battle. And Teach 258 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: only has twenty men too, while Mannard has about sixty. 259 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: But Teach his man advantage here is mounted weapons on 260 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: his sloop, which is called the Adventure. So in the morning, 261 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: everyone's kind of expecting Teach to try to make a getaway. 262 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: Instead he waits and maynards men start to approach, and 263 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: then at the last minute, Teach just shoots off to 264 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: a little winding channel that which no one else saw. Yes, 265 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: it's right by a sandbar, and manners men all get stuck. 266 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: But Mannard pretty good captain, and he tells everybody to 267 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: start throwing extra supplies overboard, and so they lighten the 268 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: ships enough that they're able to sail free. And Mannard 269 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: recounts that Teach drank damnation to me and my men, 270 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: whom he styled cowardly puppies an insult. I am just 271 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: going to be your new insults beware. And at this point, 272 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: Blackbeard's crew is bombarding a Maynard's ship with iron scraps 273 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: and nails from the guns, basically everything they've got, and 274 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: so Maynard and his men go and hide below deck, 275 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: all tricky like, and because the ship is so quiet 276 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: after this bombardment they're even grenades involved, Teach things that 277 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: they're dead, and the pirates board the ship, black Beard included, 278 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Maynard's men rush out their 279 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: lives pride the gotcha moment, and Teach and Maynard go 280 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: to a face to face battle that actually gets written 281 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: about in the London papers, and it's really it looks 282 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: like it should be in an action movie. Maynards still 283 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: be if it hasn't already managed sort of is spent. 284 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: He shoots black Beard. Um. Black Beard survived after being shot, 285 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: and obviously guns are they put a big hole in 286 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 1: you at this point, and Um, one of Maynard's men 287 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 1: jumps in at the last minute of this brutal fight 288 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:36,719 Speaker 1: between these two men and slashes black Beard's neck, and um, 289 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: I don't know how he did this with a with 290 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: a bloody slash neck, but black Beard apparently says, well done, 291 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: lad are maybe apocryphal, but it's still a good detail. 292 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,199 Speaker 1: But when he died, he'd been shot multiple times and 293 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: stabbed multiple times and kept fighting until the very very end. 294 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: And Maynard's man actually cuts off black Beard's head, which 295 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: is strung up on the ship as a warning to 296 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: other pirates. And Maynards searched and searched for black beards treasure, 297 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: as people have been doing for years, but all he 298 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: found were supplies and letters. And during the fight eight 299 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 1: of the other pirates were killed, some cred for mercy 300 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: and some were arrested and they were brought to trial, 301 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: and all but two were hanged. So the pirates didn't 302 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 1: get off so easily either. And this was pretty much 303 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: the end of piracy, or at least the golden age 304 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 1: of piracy. That was November twenty, seventeen eighteen, when black 305 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: Beard was killed. So in addition to the legend about 306 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: the treasure, there's another pretty amazing one about Blackbeard's skull. 307 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: So his head is hung up on the ship, But 308 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: what happens to the skull. Maybe it went to the 309 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: University of Virginia. There's a legend that says the skull 310 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: was dipped in silver and kept by the university, where 311 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: fraternity members were once required to drink upon their initiation. 312 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: As a great grandfather who went to the University of Virginia, 313 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: and now I'm starting to wonder was he in a 314 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: fraternity as a former member of the Greek system. 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