Black Flag: The Story of the Pirate Blackbeard

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We've talked about a lot of notorious criminals here on True Crime Campfire, but do you think any of today's villains will still be widely known in three-hundred years? Will their names be known to almost everyone, and conjure up vivid if not exactly accurate images of a time long past? The subject of this week's story is a man whose brief but spectacular criminal career wrote him a place in history—not to mention on the hit TV show “Our Flag Means Death.” Time for some true crime on the high seas!

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Sources:
Stephan Talty, Empire of Blue Water
Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates
Angus Konstam, Blackbeard

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:05.0	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:08.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the True Crime Campfire.
0:15.0	We've talked about a lot of notorious criminals here on True Crime Campfire, but do you think any of today's villains will still be widely known in 300 years?
0:30.0	Will their names be known to almost everyone and conjure up vivid, if not exactly accurate images of a time long past?
0:37.8	The subject of this week's story is a man whose brief but spectacular criminal career wrote him a place in history.
0:45.2	Not to mention on the hit TV show Our Flag Means Death.
0:49.0	Time for some true crime on the high seas.
0:51.6	This is Black Flag, the story of Blackbeard the Pirate. So, campers, we're plunging into this one right at the end in the waters off of Rokoke Island, North Carolina, November 21st, 1718.
1:17.0	Black powder smoke, musty and sulfuric, still hung about the decks of the Jane.
1:23.0	The ship had been battered by cannon fire,
1:25.0	her decks scarred by battle and stained with blood,
1:28.0	but her mission had been a success.
1:30.0	The great pirate laid dead on the wooden planks. He hadn't gone down easy. His body was
1:36.2	pierced by five bullet holes and twenty sword cuts. There was no question he was dead now
1:41.4	though. His head lay several feet from his body.
1:44.8	You don't come back from that.
1:47.1	Captain Maynard, his sword broken and his hand bleeding from his own almost fatal fight
1:52.0	with the pirate, gave his men a gruesome order and when the
1:55.2	pearl finally set sail again a severed head hung from the bowsprit at the front of the ship,
2:00.1	its long black beard waving in the breeze.
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