re: #202 ggt

Underdogs of the underdogs (no disrespect to the Jews intended) were the blacks. A free black man could be kidnapped from the seas (or anywhere) and sold. No one would do a thing about it.

Read it in a couple of books, please don’t ask for detailed references. I can get them, but would take a while.

That’s why Blackbeard had so many former slaves in his crews. For such men, to “go on the account” offered the attraction of not only money but also comrades who anyone trying to return you to slavery would have to kill first. A good number of pirates were former slaves who had run away or were on slave ships that were taken by pirates. Blackbeard’s famous Queen Anne’s Revenge was such a former slaver, as was Black Sam Bellamy’s Widdah.