Eighteenth - hundred buccaneer were undoubtedly a smelly and unsavory mob , but on top of their rummy - swilling and looting , they also enjoyed read pirates story .
Archaeologists have come across evidence onboard the crash of Queen Anne ’s Revenge , the ship infamously captured and commanded by Blackbeard in 1717 , that suggest the crew read books about other ocean trip on the ocean .
The evidence come up in the form of 16 diminutive paper fragments . These shreds of paper arebarely legible and minuscule , no boastful than a clit , but a team of investigator from theNorth Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resourceshave actually managed to count on out which rule book they came from .
Months and month of scrupulous inquiry break the fragments were from a 1712 first variant of a Word by Captain Edward Cooke , A Voyage to the South Sea , and brush up the World , Perform’d in the Years 1708 , 1709 , 1710 and 1711 .
This type of literature , take bluff tales of adventure and explorers , was democratic during the eighteenth century . The team hop this newfangled uncovering will glitter further light on this culture , and perhaps even on the relatively undocumented living of a pirate .
Not only is it bizarrely cute that these seafaring hijackers were into bedtime write up , it also indicates that pirates from the 1700s were most probably literate and educated . You could expect captains to be literate since they had to read maps and read the navigational equipment , however , it ’s often assumed that the work party was poorly train .
It ’s fairly rare for such artifacts to be found intact , specially at sea because the water quickly disintegrates paper . The squad falter across the newspaper while carrying out conservation work on the cannon chamber of the wreck of the Queen Anne ’s Revenge in 2016,originally discover on the seabednear Atlantic Beach , North Carolina , in 1996 .
Queen Anne ’s Revenge was built in the UK in 1710 , but she was capture by Blackbeard and his pirates on November 28 , 1717 , near the island of Martinique in the Caribbean . Although he ’s surrounded by legend and captivation , very few facts are fuck about Blackbeard .
remain so unknown is an telling feat considering the turn of artifactsdiscovered among the wreck , include four large ground tackle , field glass beads , ceramics , nails , tools , and personal items of the gang .
We now know that Blackbeard and his square crowd were keen readers , but the rest remains lost at sea .
