Blackbeard's Impact On American Culture

In my report i’m going to talk about the Pirate clothing, religion, where they from, how they live, the things they do, their history, and my 3 main points are gonna be their ships, blackbeard, and their flag . Almost all pirates stole their ships because they couldn’t buy ships incase they got caught and sent to jail. Once they had taken over a ship they had to covert it for pirate life, this usually meant making more room for sailors to live on bored and strengthening the decks to hold the weight of the heavy cannons. Ships sailing on their own often sailed close to warship or joined other convoys of ships to protect themselves from pirates. Pirates could only attack one ship at a time, so if the sailors traveled in groups there was a less chance of their boat being the one attacked.The things pirates looked into a ship was it needed to be seaworthy, fast, and well - armed. Seaworthy ships were especially necessary in the Caribbean sea, where devastating hurricanes are yearly occurrence.Speed was very important, if they could not run down their prey, they would never capture anything. It was also necessary to outrun pirate hunters and navy ships. They needed to be well - armed in order to win fights. If you were sailing about in the

Edward Teach known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around West Indies and Eastern Coast of the American Colonies. Although little is known about his early life, he was probably born in Bristol, England. Blackbeard had as many as fourteen wives and he had thirteen children. Blackbeard would plunder merchants ship,board them, and steal all of the gold, jewels, coins, food, liquor, and weapons.It was said that Blackbeared’s appearence alone was enough to cause the enemy to surrender. Despite his reputation, there are no accounts of Blackbeard killing or torturing anyone. On November 22, Blackbeard’s forces was on defeated and he was killed in a bloody battle of Ocracoke