Blackbeard's Story - A Cabin Boy and Captain

Blackbeard's father died soon after his birth, and he was replaced with a cruel stepfather who regularly beat blackbearer. This drove a 16 year old edward teach to sign on to as as a cabin boy where he worked transporting either goods or enslaved people to jamaica. Bo actually didn't realize how young so is that it wastt normal for a captain to be in their teens. And especially back in the day, in the original versions of piracy, pirateers, boucone file bustier, they also needed a large amount of sea training just to do the later on.