196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror
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Hello, and welcome to empire with .

me and William dimple.

Yeah, here we are. Can I just say we started off with black body as a body part. Part of the just onderdonk epic drama came from only the purity historical sources here on empire.

Now we're continuing on from the last episode. We discuss the early life and career of Edward touch. Otherwise I known as that would teach because of a typo.

We learned black beard, as he later became known, the most feared pirate of his time. And we're delighted to be joined again by historian and specialists and all things poverty to discuss the height of rain and terror. Big drama in your best pia accent gone day.

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I give IT what doesn't make your toes call .

that you would think .

used to IT my notes, so I can only say sorry. Looked in the last epode, we were talking about the gold nature of pirates, and that was the seventeen to eighteen th centuries where where pirates were capitalizing on the rise of of trading companies .

like the east india company, that is the enemy in parts, the carbon.

yeah, exactly like this india company. So let's sort of them hold hands with where we left off. And we've sort of left you around about April seventeen, seventeen, where black bids close friend and pirate comrade had died when his ship was caught by a storm and sunk. I mean, restore, let me to stop ble check with our fact checkers. So any of .

that note .

bulk t you the the as captain point sam, your below me, who was another pride who had been Operated the new providence, but he had captured the sliding vessel that we do as IT passed through the one what passage on the way to the bahamas. And he was a lot vessel that he armed with guns and and had room for more crew members and room for more cargo and for more plundered as well. So it's substantial Price, one of the the bases of the time now.

And what happened to the enslaved cargo?

So good questions. So we not sure when that comes to do that. We do say if we don't know what happened to the slave cargo, what we take to happen is either the pilots would hand in slave cargo back to the slavers themselves.

Oh no, really.

yes. So well, we have the the summit of pilots of freeing and slave persons.

exactly, and sort of a blind party crews that .

are a measure of multi ethnic I E S. On board pia basics. But they were just as likely to be in slave labor s as well. Just as always throughout the atlantic, little, there was three black .

mardon's and in, but handing back to the slava that is just, and not liking them at all very much come to.

okay.

well, the wider then it's recked by a storm IT sinks and all of those on border. I mean, it's thanks to governor shoot of massage sets. Are they fished out of the water or just pluck off the record? What happens to the pirate city captures .

most of what the reader actually die. So and the chemic itself, most die, including Samueli, but is another vesle alone side of the media. And a few of those crew members survived, or seven and total who survived, and they're quickly captured and taken to boston.

And in person they are, is a quote, under stronger guard and sufficiently bound from county to county, share if to share that these are high security risks.

these guys. And also, I mean that the image that painted is of these and believe good parents who have survived the death, their comrades, they are put in in prison cages, and they are destined for the news. And this news reaches blackbeard, and he is furious. How dare you treat my pirate brothers like this? And IT sets the light of undergoing .

exactly there was him to happen from this point on is that that that really does stop to take alive the eastern and seeable at this point, really. And response IT seems to to that attach. So that's execution of pilots and boston because is either this is sort pilot, but either when he doesn't want sort of them to be. But actually, I think it's more this is what happens if you captures that, you executes.

This is what's gonna en.

is that we will take, arise the coast of and attack these manners as they take the property of these may options, particularly from boston, and they just start to tune out overboard. Ds, so anything they don't want, they just stop to dump and into the ocean. So there would be a completely rule in these buyers as well. So there are happened with the house.

So I mean, boston is not, as we know from tea parties of you you they don't take this kind of thing lying down. Is there not a response from new england?

Yes, these six BIOS who are captured, the seven capture, the sex of them are funny, ili and executed, not too lonely after, but also posting, start to become one of these were prominent anti piracy ports. And they do start to look for even their .

own vessels to go and to hunt to whole ness ness, so to speak, that all these vessels are Operating out of this, this ocp, l lao.

It's really well that point. Everyone knows what what's happened to new problem, and everyone knows that this is no a pilot nest. The problem is that no one has the strength for the resources to attack IT that all actually be scaled of going up against these pivots because they do have large vessels, large cannons and large crews, so no one can quite call the any against them.

And then you have the reputation for being notice as well, you know, so that people slightly scared of taking .

them on the ultimate well cultivated.

not a image. So in response, this is a bit, I like, best in response to the execution of the crew, blackbeard declares war on the british empire for IT. David, tell us what happened. Think.

yeah. So if they clear water on at least the eastern sea, a board and they do start to take ized as region, they take lots of vessels are dumping property into the into the water, other even bond vessels as well. So any vessels they don't want, they start to bond some of them as well, say them, and they do this for a good few months. But then he gets to one enough time, and no one wants to be least sea board and one to. So they, they, they go back to the cabbie started to take ize the .

canadian at point time. I love you.

They back for the iraq, you know, the dumping the stuff over the side. I love this story. There's one merchant board, one of the ships that black, it's taken and he just stands there and watches is about a thousand pounds worth of his personal cargo, get tipped over the side and he's begging bleeze.

No, not that box. no. Leave that a god.

not that box, and finally begs to be allowed to keep enough to make just one supose yes.

just and you know what? And black bit looks like and goes, no tips IT both .

text overboard yeah and when you think the .

point he was Operated with the goals, they were actually quite nice. But there more or placing pilots, like, say, that is, they would take goods from match vessels. Often they would leave a lot of the cargo .

with these individuals. And exactly.

no more nice. Black, okay.

So theyve got up for their summer, not vacation, but summer pilgrims unna glin is the reason that they are so hard to catch, because everybody wants to catch him, everybody hates their guts at this point, is that they never say more than forty eight hours in a single place. You know, there, there is that discipline among the pirates that you are always moving. And if you're always match.

if they move up the. Because you can stay in the same place for too long, because that's when people find you.

And this is when all of these survivors reports start coming back as well to the press, I guess, because I didn't kill everybody in the pom a with no suit to wear. I don't think he dies because .

he've lives to tell that story, but he is only one of fifty vessels .

that he captures that yeah I mean, it's quite a successful and but they don't ever go quite as far as much. They try to stop that because, again, it's just another capital crime could be punished for.

Got some traumatized seek captions pouring into new york, boston, philadelphia, telling their tales resume will be agitating for a proper response.

exactly. You start to get a lot of play up coming to the governors. You have to respond to point, you have to respond to these attacks, which they can do, but they can only do IT in a reactive whistle pilots attack for four years old. And then they send out an anti piacere value against these to there .

is of among these interesting reports of what was done, these tales of world, William put IT, you know, the unmatured AMD captain Peter Peters, who who talks about how you went blackbeard's parents took his ship. They stole twenty seven bottles of his model, and they hacked, weigh his mask and then let him run a ground. And there were something in that you take my wine, had you take my mast. What a bunch of bus is. You know, it's like, I love the order of world that he expresses its very, very funny.

But it's caught them in the mass and the kind ay anyway so you can sort of continue to attack for a while before the newest gets back to poor that you're nearby.

you're not killing someone. You not like you to be down for murder, but you're stopping them coming after .

you or or or raising alarm too fast.

Yeah, was black bird leading a flotilla of pirate ships? Or is he doing all of this in just on one ship.

many ships? Bon IT sounds like A A comedy .

double act two and wardian ladies telling .

jokes by a piano at the other.

They, they have to a small, a small two vessels they are Operating with at this .

pointing time. Okay, so they're back to the carabao. And now the next chapter in the black beard story is a special title, let luck on court, which is the neighbor, a slave ship, which is sAiling to trade with the african princess of benee. How does this ship matter to black bids method?

An story. This is really what his name starts to get made because IT becomes one of the largest flagships and the piot fleet, all so really what black bear wants at this point in time as a large of vesle. This of a flagship for has fleet and what he's looking for as a slave and vessel because these are much larger of vessels that anything else this Operate in this region. But there are also quite fast vessels because they are slaving voyages. So the lying way off the eastern and cost of the cabbie waiting for vessel ls to the toner from waste africa .

to the canadian.

what is this? Now, this is an late .

seventeen really, really .

active OK. So late seventeen, seventeen, he is Operated off the coast of the southeastern catapez. And the lack on called arrives, though this is a sleeve in basel, which is owned by a macri, by a french merchant, and north, which becomes the preeminent poor of the french slave trade at on, and has already been on two sleeving voyages to west africa and sAiling and slave persons and Martinque and sand among more than they hate. But this is its not voyage and IT has proposed five hundred and sixteen and slave persons that we da on the west african cost and that includes men, women and children and and november the arrive of the cost of the laser and tells off the east on cat and it's here that the encounter black built and all .

of who are in two ships, or they got a fleet this point.

the account says the black belt has two vessels at this point, one of twelve cannon and one hundred and twenty nine, and the other of eight cannon and thirteen. So two vessels that are quite easily able to overcome this living vessel, because also at this point, the crew on the leading vessel sec with scarves and decently, and are unable to defend the veto. So they take IT relatively easily, to be honest.

However, after they take this lack on cut, they then give the french one of their vessels, and again, they transfer the majority of in slave persons on both. That's facial. And so the french captain is able to sell to Martini and then sell the in save persons.

They are still. So here's your were in in the poor people who have been cut his conditions under Carry on with their ordeal. I don't like pirates. I used to think I did like, but I don't like pirates at all. Okay, so right, he's got his working great battleship luck on, go Carry on calling IT luck on court .

as he keep the name or as he renne is. No, this one gets renny .

ed to the great revenge, which begonias air is.

What he's doing knows why he's called up the engine, knows that that will capture the imagination .

of others is anything to do with the jacket? And we've talked about the just a lot in the recent past the money. Are they paying homage to her? That just is just a name clock out of A P. It's .

definitely apply on this jack. I E. So the reason they call some lame because they do, you have these jack tendencies, and some may have that.

but he's an english man. He, he was .

supposed the .

west x and hard.

Exactly, exactly. Well, this is by equation. And I gei think that really what they're doing, as they are trying to capture the imagination, they called the queen and revenge, because they know that, well, basically get on the the right side of annoying people like the royal navy, like the crown.

I think there's about human to be onest. Well, think I think of a, and these pilots call in their vessels things like the queen ander, revenge of the tegan James. There's also what maybe an element playmates. Sm, we are by, if they can pretend, or at these claim that they are rebellion against ten George the forest or on behalf of the student, then they can claim some form of legitimacy. So are flying a flag of convenience if you IT doesn't basically.

So I mean, getting the queen revenge, he, he known as lack on court. Does that make him the most already flexing pirate in the carabi an? Or are they take a parts to him at this?

Know that the has been shepard, this is definitely one of the largest s right OK.

So without in itself, i'm guessing, will attract more cruel and more people who want to be under your jolly Roger is flying the we said that the water is natural thing, but is he flying IT, or does that matter .

to other pirates? Is defining some sort of flight really in the record ball comes up as they see, fly that a black flag death. So some sort of school don't actually looks like, but you know, it's black.

Know what has a skull IT for all the d method? Giza, I am impressed by how much of the legend actually is, is is there in the reality .

of there was always these.

I love the way you still insist on fishing in the book of dead. I like IT. It's good.

okay. So look, as we were saying, you become more popular. People want to be with you if you're successful. And by seventeen and eighteen, blackbeard has a flow teller of about six ships under his command, with the magnificent queen an's revenge leading this flow teller 也 算是 to set up a book。 Ade, because, I mean, if you really want the big money, what you do is your blocked E A port and you extort for as much as you. The pic .

exactly is back in the the course with revenge and immediately blocked es Charleston and south catAlina.

a right, which is the biggest port of all, is going for the jack.

Right is one of ports and actually the other choice OK. Well, let's take a break .

that down the break where we find out what happens after the cade.

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Welcome back. Well, we are now reaching the client of black birds. Incredible story, which, as I said before, it's far closer to the truth than anyone might have imagined, is extraordinary .

parts the carbon. That's right.

Even David going .

to regret something anyway. Just have a look at the blackboard legend already. Will people up and down the coast all of hurt them, is in every newspaper always adjust the reports of attacks? And is their name behind .

them by that are start to be the so of the elements of the metal staff to develop? You can see that he has becoming quite moria, and the written record particularly, and newspapers, he will become monitorial with his next attacks and north. But secondly, merchants would have known of him and some governors as well, so well around the sea feeling elite. I think his name was started to become no.

And as we said, he actually now has, what? Six ships. It's somewhere between the color and the feet.

Now mulsanne four hundred main. All these vessels, well, also a signal flee and a significant crew.

But IT also means, presume a bit if you got four hundred men, you have four hundred maths defeat. You need to keep the tempo up. There's no question of him going back and backing down and after .

you couldn't say for a long time and people get sea. Cy, you know you're not having food veda, as we know, flour is a really expensive commodity because you don't have a you know, going on their little architect go paris archipelago or you haven't got crop farming OK.

So I mean, let's go back to the blockade. Eighteen black beard and four ships sale up to charlton. He arrives in the hub of fires on the city with all his ships. And then in considered to be one of the kind, brave and boldest ax with clear, he sets up a formal blocked e David, take us from there.

Exactly what he says of this blocks. E of chartres, not only in any basis to come and without him basically reading these vessels, but actually comes back, need to point on on having that many crew members and then trying to take key of them and trying to have the supplies to be able to have that many name. Because what he's really doing with us, blocky, as he wants to demand a taste of medicine for his crew.

Wait a minute, wait minute. Because, you know, you think if you block at a port, you know, this is just me speaking gold, Charles. You know, the balloons, pieces of and .

chilstone is famous ly, a rich port, is is a fantastically rich southern .

plantation places. Yeah exactly. But he doing just .

one chest medicine that's really only asked for and of the even point he still has to blocky, thus poor, just to get access to thus chase of medicine. How basically must have been follow us. medicine.

What kind of medicine are we talking about in seven, eight.

after unfortunate actly? What as he gets? But IT will be some sort of medicine to respond to covey, to decently, to type host, actually at his, what will come to the fact that the base of gate rake, but in the rake of the suffers, that rake, and one of the artifacts, they also phone, was, are, was that you really through sage? So i'll leave that for your imagination.

Wait a minute. No, we're going to go into that on empire podcast. You rethrocide ge is something rather appalling that goes up the blocks. Oha isn't IT to unblock and allow .

you to be. Is that what IT is for all for infections?

yeah. So you've got simplest. That's what IT is. That's what IT is. I've come across this lot in my eighteen century readings, and everyone is taking .

mercury and having to rub this thing into the room.

an india of a rubbing themselves with. And this isn't just a paris. I've been reading the diaries of month to elephants on uses.

So establishment character is any. And in hyderabad, he gets a terrific case of the club. And he describes in create detail his symptoms at his treatment.

But isn't the treatment get a clear?

Well, we know that more they see this .

has an effect on .

on the time the .

infection. Okay, we do us on that far too much and far too long. I'm sorry about that. Sorry, not sorry.

IT figures so prominently, eighteen century letters here, if you read any man's letters .

or journals, mercury will turn up soon. Or the medicine, he said, does he threw in a couple of lemons for the scherzi as well? I mean, we have or do they just go with the very best?

And I would be a man of the chase of medi. You d say, is that if you don't give me back of the ships in the harbor, but also to the captain c has as well. So sure.

The desperation ation for that chase of medicines on the flood said that Johnson isn't able to really do anything about this. He has to exchange change of medicine. He does not have a choice because he has no way to combat like the explore ades .

is there of feeling the teeth sold himself cheap that he could have asked for a half the tax revenues of of south CarOlina.

Am I imagining they always say you .

of a crop pirate?

You said, did not me the people .

that .

we bar on all the piers to go core and executed .

well as labor had because he still at large but clucking is and he's bits and clutching his aspirin and he's off again. okay. So then where no does his mercury adult crew?

So they don't go very far. They actually move from south CarOlina up to north catAlina and then black, by runs the queen s revenge, I could end up bullfight t and let. And it's thought that he does this intentionally.

It's unsure how intentional lessons, but at this point that seems like black. You'd ready to break up the crew. And apparently what happens to see breaks with bonus and the most of bonuses crew, and actually only a small portion of black BIOS crew, twenty nine plus ham, then leave with most of the plunder as well. So I get with with us large flatear, a yd already the open an Operating nails with in the catapez. And so that made a customers seem to have made some reaches, and they decided actually there was a time to cheap.

no out of the crew. So what are the ways that I read that they made some money before, you know, he gives up and runs the ship ground, is that they do this sort of tall collection from north CarOlina. They take over inlets and they say, right, you know, if anyone wants to pass here, you're going to have to give us some money to go pass. I know how long does that last or not really very long at all.

It's only a few days where they do have this ade. But well, that happened. The are taken vestals at season goods from vessels. There are a lot of.

and David, give some impression of the of the cruise. Are they all near dwells from the babel mas? Are the people are being captured and somehow made their piece with their capture? Who are these people? Is reading by fear, or is IT a sort of democracy of rogues? What's going on is .

an interesting max of all of the above. So there are some members of this clue who are sort of die hard poots, this volunteer pilots, who make up the core part of his crew, and who are really in up for the retch's, but also following black, yet this way of following his command. But there's also a law of other individuals who have been forced on board, who have been forced recruits when they take up to vessel, to force a few of the crew to join the pi of basel, just to hill the data day running of the ships. So there's about a max of these core voluntary pilots and then some more forced pdts and then someone of some people in between who sort of move from being forced to become a more voluntary.

But from what you've told us, David IT doesn't sound and like there's any great strategy is not trying .

to build up a fleet or conquer .

somewhere or become the takes a slave. Basically, he has already know where that seems like he's made his riches and areas that we don't really know don't have a records of IT. But when he bakes Charles and not really as as last year at as a of captain of this fotex er as I was me that that was boy was reading up to to attack child to take the currency and then and then .

leave OK and .

does IT look when he runs his vessel, a shore and he breaks up the flute ler and assembly pays off everyone that needs to be paid off. Is there any sense that he wants now to, you know, change his identity, shave his beard and become .

a authority respectable .

geography teacher and you and .

seems that maybe the gay after. So what happens as an north CarOlina like people to arrives and bath the capital of north catalonia antics are parting. So at this point in ten kjs forces over that parding to all pivots between september seventeen seventeen and september seventeen eighteen, they offer this part in the basically, as I means to try to detail these pilots though, to get them back into the fold. They can't seem to hunt them down. So so instead, the office of the marginal party, if they come in to port and expect so glad, does that in north catAlina, with twenty .

of his crew talking .

about jun seventeen .

a bit later, he's back at IT. Don't we find him on now? He's on the adventure because he's know some queen's revenge.

And he again goes back to north CarOlina, but he's, you know answered in kind because the people of CarOlina are so second tired of him, and they don't trust that he's gonna for good that they beg. They beg the left tenant, Robert manard, to hunt him down. They don't believe the pardon is worth the paper is written on. They don't believe he's given up his wave even though he's prove himself to be rather a crap pirate and so may not goes to hunting .

and tries to hunting down exactly north of the partner. But he does continue as to al.

having you a cake eat at was the best job exactly.

Actually he is called that seems like is colliding, at least with the chief justice in the collected of the customs and north canal.

those politicians .

involved as I S what heal the black was out once that again, he says he got out on a trading voyage, actually leaves with little tradable cargo. So that's that's already questionable. But he says, is gonna trading expected and tons with us based lead them with sugar and other goods that he claims is found as a right.

First, the back of a lory you have never .

guess I bumped into a galia. No one want to just just sitting, unsurprisingly.

wait on so is our friendship that he's practically taken and seized and those are back in north katina. But that does gate to to Virginia the new start to actually to virgina because you are my actions public in th our sack of vest and they are being treated horribly by black business is crew IT seems so the right to Virginia and request support and requested the navy stationed and for genia.

come to the rescue. So David, take us to november seventeen. The lutein governor of Virginia, Alexander sort would dispatches this naval force you talked about under the tenant, Robert maud.

And his job is to hunt black beard down. Black beard has appeared without suit that he found off the back of malory. And this, he's on the adventure. And on the twenty first and november, he anchors of an island of north CarOlina. And I tell .

us what happens. Two sloops said, say, from Virginia, under the command of these naval officers, saw the first life, ten of the petal robot mente as in charge, and they are directed to a place called oka coke inlet, which is, we are black field as stationed at this point time, is really have reports that point of diode ating from at the same time I, however, the evil captain elis brand, travel over land to bath, just in case blackbirds and bath and states.

So they are, do are two prong attack here. But these two sloops then entered to the area around after cock. And I don't have an a actually written by by Robert minter, one of the newspapers, that explains what happened to.

yes, please do so.

This is the kind of the moment the picture agency, finally.

in a big CAD rates, I attack. And all right and north a when he had on boat, twenty one men and nine guns mounted our first salutation, he drank damn nation to me in my main, whom he styled cowardly puppies, saying he would not neither give nor take quarter.

That's the attitude we love. IT go immediately we engaged.

and one of our captains was unfortunately killed, as well as five of his men who were wounded. That means that one of the slip sensor of falls off. And the meantime, continuing the fate at being a perfect cam, I shot away teachers gab, forcing ham assure, as, I mean, not, I boded his slip and had twenty main kEllen wounded immediately.

The upon he entered me with ten men, but trails don't may I left. They are fault, like he roes sod in hand. And they killed every one of them that entered without the loss of one man on their site. And the whole I had eight men killed and eighteen wounded. We killed twelve besides black beer to fail with five short and ham, and twenty does more cuts in several parts of his body and may not bangs on to see. I should never have taken him if I had not got him in such a hole when he could not get out for we had no guns on board so that the engagement on our site was the more bloody and desperate.

That's amazing that they didn't have guns. I mean, that surprises me. You think you've been, you've been charged getting a deadly pie here.

Have some toothpicks, this prety logs and arms.

Why were they need?

They unable to say the best themselves, say they are too large to get in to oklahoma. So instead sports for the outfits, these two vases with the evil commanders on board. And basically they don't have time to also. So they just have to say that would be you can kind of see the death but ation and may not light air. I think you can tell you to pull a little bit annoyed .

of at the fact he's been .

sent out with no is iconic David just deserve the final blow comes from a Scott's island. You decapitated black beard with a powful swing of his oil.

That's not like that of the ilm attacks black beard with this. But odd salt and cut salt is head.

is a broad salt, is a clamor, but .

still .

is a claim.

Do they pick IT up and mounted on a spite or something when they did that sort of thing in those days?

And this just says, I have cut black bills hair, which I have put on my both spit in order to get to a hanger off the trunk of the just dangling.

There's like a like a ferry dice on a ford courtine.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. So they arrived back in reginia Victorious with us. Hate hungry from the next .

because these are tough type. okay? And there's that a hero is welcome and our people just sort of throwing the streets saying black beds dead and gold black is is that happened?

There's a lot of celebration, and the naval captains are also very celebrated. And the news of the feet get calculated through out the empire back in london as vale. Because what they really want to show is that if you drop od, that is what happens. Because actually it's quite real that the navy ever engaged pilots and capture them in this way. So because it's such a spectacle, they want to share that information into the tribute IT to speculate or .

as much as possible. So I read that they then after, if you know, parading the head around, that IT goes on. What was the equivalent of ebay at the time auctioned off? I mean, is that true that IT was auctioned off? And I think one hundred pound. So .

anyone who wanted to buy out, like they are, posts of commons, the reward for anyone who would put them black bear's head for one hundred pounds. So I think that's where that's taken from.

That's where is conflicted to. So wasn't actually the bloodied head of black fired enterprising .

name quickly does the myth of black beard grow .

into the one we've all grown up with? How quickly does he become the archetype parade.

I think, is really from this point on mods that you can see that because this account is calculated so widely. Actually, this is where black lime gets me. This is where we start to really see people talk about s to the more because of the fact that he gets caught in the spectacle, that is what his name starts to get made.

And then you get .

Charles Johnson and seventeen.

twenty four and and we're left with this kind of, you know, legacy. If I don't kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am.

Where's that from? William is from parts carbon stranger IT.

Is the back of that, not right? The world.

according to David you.

that you can't see this british face is in his hand.

is a man they spent his whole life on muddying the water. We've just put our really booted there and started all up.

I know. So look, is the end of black beard? Is that the end of the the gold ends of the bias? This is IT after this, people to think, if you know, you take into a hood ornaments.

no, he Carries on for a bit.

doesn't that is for at least another sex after points, although this is is quite this vertical, actually, black ops day and shortly after that is also an anti pacy voyager against Steve bonnets. So he also get capture the executed, but then you get us new movement of other pilots who start to move to the west african course of the ending in ocean.

and to result the last place where you have parents still Carrying on this, the that you still get quite a lot going up the coast and ambushing vessels coming out to go. And so right up until the seventeen forties, am I right about that?

Yes, always we talk with the golden age party ended in seventeen and twenty, sex in the sof atlantic pacy aims with black building catheters were not the partial can continues whe into the nineteen, to be honest, as lots of objects of after, we just don't seem to roman size in the same way.

Hey, you mentioned before that they they found the queen an's revenge. Have they raised IT or they diving around the red tea story?

So they have found the equians revenge of the cost of north CarOlina in the ninety nineties. And y've been slowly, literally escaped and not leave the half that as well. no.

And the more recent decades, but actually interested, but it's patched as a piter basis. So really, they keep talk about the queen of vang's in black tuesday. So not really what all the entry comes from, but I was first and foremost as sleeve and vessel. Really, we should be looking at that in that sense as well because a lot of the artists acs found on board are also related to the slave trade. And I think the the art to more work or not, I doesn't .

say that the legend continues in reunion. I mentioned about putting this bottle of rum on the grave of lambs, which means of got the zz in french. And the reason that he is still immortalized is that when in seventeen and thirty he was captured by a slave trading beauty hunter, he was brought bacteria union sentence to death.

And on the sld he made a speech which had motorized him for life. As the news was placed around his neck, he scattered a bundle of parchment among the crowd. The maps, he said, indicated exactly where on reunion his treasures lay buried.

But first, to find that would have to unite all the different maps and crack the code. To this day, the treasures has never been found, despite adventurer coming to reunion on to search IT for two hundred and fifty years. It's a great story.

And such as the legend that to this day in reunion, if you want a child or you have a problem conceiving, women come to the grave of labels. He still regarded this figure of sort of very, uh, this is symbol of passions, nature. And you go to the grave, and IT is alive with offering cigarettes, bottles of vodka, bottles of rum. And it's one of the main religions in reunion that the locals there are still very much regard labels as a figure who is around in some form and can intervene in their lives.

Can I the very first question, what you.

Well, IT was right for me. thanks.

Good writing. great. That's literally no connection IT.

But IT is literally the case that he found one million pounds worth of indian gems, lambs, and they have never been found. And you still have french treasures unter going for IT today. Great story.

Well, look, I mean, if you've got a spare out, you know what you could do that. Listen, this is not absolute to delight. David wsa, thank you very, very much for your joining and that's IT for our many series on black beard. But do you join us again till the next time we meet? It's goodbye from me and I on.

and i'm goodbye for me. William turned.