Blackbeard the Pirate
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The Pirates' View of Africans
Luck on Court is taken to the small remote island of Bechia in the Grenadines, where no French or British naval military presence is to be seen. It is here Blackbeard oversees Luck on Court's refit. He hands the slaves back to the sailors and even gives the Frenchman one of his smaller sloops, albeit stripped of its guns. By December 10 Dosey has landed in Martinique, where he reports his encounter with Blackbeard to the authorities. The refurbished ship is renamed Queen Anne's Revenge - a satirical dig at George I, the first king from the German House of Henevere.
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