BLACKBEARD: THE MAN & THE MYTH (PT 2)

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In Pt 2 of BLACKBEARD: THE MAN & THE MYTH we discuss, in order, Blackbeard's beard- did he lite fuses in it to terrify his adversaries? ~First Mate Israel Hands, his story as we know it~Va. Governor Spotswood's reason for ignoring British law and sending his navy units after Blackbeard in NC~Landowner William Bell's complaint that he wqas attacked by Blackbeard and a small crew on the Pamlico River at 3am one morning- the story~How many wives did Blackbeard have?~What happened to the crew after the Battle of Ocracoke?~Crewman James Robinson story~ Crewman Edward Salter's Grave story~Was the crew hanged in Williamsburg as the story now goes?~How many were not hanged and why~Salter's body finally returned to family~the story of Caesar the black slave~the tunnel to Gov. Eden's house~Blackbeard's missing Diary this would be the REAL treasure if found one day)~Treasure locations and theories~ Lastly my apologies for using the word "Hung" twice in this interview. No I cant go back in and change it. I know, pictures are hung. People were hanged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	.
0:30.0	Welcome back everyone to one thousand one heroes the legends histories and
0:36.2	mysteries podcast this is your host John Hegedorn and it's great to have you
0:40.5	with us today. Author and noted historian Kevin Duffus is with us today to
0:46.4	cover our story Blackbeard the man in the myth and there's much to cover this
0:50.9	week as we discuss the fate of Blackbeard's captured crew the outcomes faced
0:55.7	by some of Blackbeard's bath town crewmates as well as Blackbeard's friend
0:59.8	and advisor customs collector Tobias Knight and North Carolina governor
1:05.0	Eden as well as answers to a number of questions ranging from did Blackbeard
1:10.0	really lightest beard with fuses to terrify his adversaries and how many wives
1:14.3	did he have where did he keep his treasure and did he have one and what
1:19.0	motivated Virginia governor spots would to take down Blackbeard in the first
1:22.7	place these questions in many more today with Kevin Duffus Kevin I've been
1:28.7	scouring your research articles you sent me and the more I learned the more
1:32.2	I'm beginning to believe that the mighty Blackbeard might have remained just a
1:36.0	footnote in pirate history where it not for the 10-minute battle at Ocracoke
1:40.1	which cost him his head I'm beginning to see he and his loyal crew as they
1:44.5	really were young men from what was then the struggling town of Bath, North
1:48.6	Carolina sons of mariners and plantation owners whose plantations were not at
1:53.4	the time profitable young men who sailed to the Florida coast with hundreds of
1:58.0	other treasure-hungry coasties and state-sponsored expeditions to gather
2:02.2	plunder from the Spanish ships wrecked there in the 1715 storm it was just an
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