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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
In opposition to Cotton Mather, Blackbeard had a different tract to preach from his pulpit of piracy. His and Captain Benjamin Hornigold's sloops approached a French guineaman (slave ship) from both sides and with broadsides from each ship almost cleared the deck of men. This was The Concord out of St. Malo captained by D'Ocier. It had a cargo of jewels, plate, gold dust, money and slaves among other things. They dropped the survivors on the nearest island and started partying with them still in sight. Then they gutted much of the slaver to create an atrium like space for the radical democracy of no private cabins on pirate ships which was part of the Brethren of the Coast code. They renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge and she became Blackbeard's flagship. Pirate code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Blackbeard's flotilla included another ship with
Revenge as a name. This was that of Stedt Bonnet. Bonnet was a plantation owner and a bit of a fat dandy. He bought his ship and its 70 man crew from his own money rather than working his way up in someone else's crew like most pirates. Rumor was that it was his wife's constant nagging had drove him to piracy. He brought a potted tobacco plant, a
walrus ivory smoking pipe, a very fine suit and
topped it all off with a powered wig to his ship. Unfortunately, his personality did not meet his dreams of being a pirate captain. Bonnet's crew
elected to give his ship's captaincy over to Blackbeard. He had encountered his
elder Blackbeard accidentally at sea who had greeted him with the words "A Brother of the Coast: Come on up topside, Captain!" This mutual respect between the two captains did not last long as you will see.
Biography of Pirate Stede Bonnet - Major Stede Bonnet Profile