Edward Teach

Fact meets fiction or rather UBF meets B&P. In the most cliché of ways these two text that are different in so many ways are the perfect match. In the most spectacular examples of art imitating life the examples of what a pirate was and is wasn't all wrong. There was a Black Beard ,pirates did outrun the governing forces that hunted them, and there were politicians that with a couple pieces of gold would turn their heads to the wanted men.... and women. Although the musicals, hooked hands, and peter pans seemed to tone down what being a pirate truly was and some examples like Pirates of the Caribbean even romanticize it pirating was a dark path to walk. The legend of Black Beard for example painted him as a fearless, hooked hand, swashbuckling man who outsmarted or out fought all those in his way. While this is true of Edward Teach the narrative leaves out how he set fire to his notorious beard to intimidate his enemies. How a sizeable amount of his time as a pirate wasn't spent looting or singing, but hiding and the most important part of all that his fairytale life didn't have a fairytale ending. Edward met his bloody end. English accent pun intended, to the hand of the british navy in North Carolina where he'd been paying to be allowed to stay. Although he may have had the Johnny Depp style life in the beginning he never sailed of into the open sea to a free life of leisure with his black pearl he bled out on a water deck on th Queen Anne's Revenge.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/blackbeard-killed-off-north-carolina