
Episode 493: Blackbeard Part III - The Blackbeard Effect
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Blackbeard's Pirates
Blackbeard's head fell to the deck and rolled away, leaving the surviving pirates without a captain. Black caesar tried igniting the gunpowder stores on the adventure in a last ditch suicide attack. He was stopped at the last sexosured deedeand matter how, he was arrested. But there are no records as to whether he was hanged with the rest of the pirates, or if he was sold into slavery like most black pirates. It's unknown what happened to the head ultimately, but some reports claim that maynard handed over to virginian authorities who hung it from a pole on hampton road for some years after. Others say that blackbeard's skull was incorporated into the bottom
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