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Women created a shift in piracy on the High Seas by curbing the amount of scurvy aboard buccaneer vessels by adding celery to pirate diets.

Blackbeard shyly accepted the women's role in regulating medicine on board ship and often would thank them by asking his second-in-command to cancel their deck swabbing duties. Blackbeard did prefer rum to celery as did almost all of his crew. Except the deeply religious members who had been kidnapped off of the merchant ships Blackbeard and his crew had sunk.

The upper crust of Blackbeard's crew stored a trunk full of change from raided sunked ships. They had an annual dividing of the spoils among the rest of the crew.

In a ledger on Blackbeard's ship was an account of treasure taken from a slave ship which had once been the prize oaken yacht of a very young caliph.

Blackbeard's crew had paid dearly for the plumb prize loosing timber in a fire fight. Some of them had to pluck huge splinters from their limbs while others had died from much bigger wood shards from the slaver's blunderbusses' loads hitting the ship's wooden rails, masts, and decks and throwing up lethal wooden missiles.

The pirate crew had taken some things off the slave ship: a ticket from a slave auction, cuffs for slaves, chains that often made a thump on Blackbeard's inner deck and many collars. These spawn of slavery were often too much for even Blackbdeard's conscience to afford to bear.

Blackbeard awoke to a shrill whistle from one of his look-outs who had spotted a very familiar corsair ship far off the starboard bow. His Master-at-Arms called the crew to arms. Now that other of his crew were awake he decided it was time to settle his score with his sworn enemy.

He got rope from a compartment in his cabin, shoved it under his hat, and lit it. Unfortunately, this frightening visage did not work this time as his hat caught on fire. He had never been frugal with this burning rope trick and could hardly afford to lose another piece of captain's headwear. He liked to shove as much burning rope under his hat so as to appear like the devil coming at enemy ship crews. A hatless pirate attempting to subdue a targeted merchant ship might get undue laughter rather than the desired dread.

This was not Blackbeard's first rodeo. The ship's crew raided their stash of weapons. These included a replica of a Roman Imperial Italic helmet, swords, axes, muskets, knives, staffs, and other implements of execution. They had already set their minds to indict their prey to death according to the Pirate Code for anyone not putting up a good fight. Now, they would just have to see if they were going to have to show any mercy.

The enemy corsair ship was way out of its home territory of the Mediterranean Sea. Nevertheless, Blackbeard wanted to show it very little mercy, if any. It had taken many ships out of his and his crew's net and had to pay for that guilt. Only an infant could be showed mercy and this infant would still have to inhale the smoke from fire as well as from cannon and musket shot.

On board the Queen Anne's Revenge predecessor a sloop, Blackbeard pulled out his telescope from its socket to look at the blimp of a captain. This was his hated enemy Lawrence Prince, former captain of the 300 ton slave gally Whydah, now captain of the slave corsair Sultana. He who "Black Sam" Bellamy gave the Sultana to after Bellamy stole the captain's position from Blackbeard's mentor Benjamin Hornigold when Blackbird was First Mate on the Mary Anne. Blackbeard would make Prince-- who often smelled of medicinal balsam and beef jerky-- pay for this treachery towards Blackbeard's former Captain Hornigold. If only pretty boy playboy "Black Sam" were also still on the Sultana.


As the Queen Anne's Revenge predecessor a sloop closed on the former slave ship Sultana, the sneaky captain of Blackbeard's target had sailors with hidden swivel guns who now levelled these mini cannons at Blackbeard's ship. Too bad that Edward Teach (Blackbeard) had not snuck a snitch to act as mole in Lawrence Prince's crew on the Sultana. The volley from these swivel guns did not abate and created a plume of smoke emanating from the lower decks. Blackbeard retreated from this battle to fight another day against "Black Sam" Bellamy and his pirate friends.

Blackbeard's navigator shouted-- "We should replenish our crew yonder at the wharf past the mouth of the Bay. His First Mate made a pledge that "Black Sam" Bellamy and his cronies would pay for the deaths of some of their crewmates.

Up river from the Bay, were small towns with Brethen of the Coast (pirates) who created a wedge between the plantation owners on one side and the townsfolk on the other. A strand of these pirates were children of the followers of the great pirate Henry Morgan. Some of Morgan's men had even been well versed in the use of a rocket in sea battle which could turn the tide for Blackbeard against the likes of Lawrence Prince, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Paul Williams.