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[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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- [shouting]
- [cannon fire]
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[narrator] When the Spanish
treasure fleet spills its fortune
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off the coast of Florida,
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the pirates of the Caribbean clean up.
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We're gonna get so rich,
we'll be shittin' gold.
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[pirates laugh and cheer]
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[narrator] Their humble base in Nassau
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turns into a boomtown...
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[laughter and men cheering]
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...run by Benjamin Hornigold's Flying Gang,
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Black Sam Bellamy, Paulsgrave Williams,
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and his latest recruit, Edward Thatch,
soon to be known as Blackbeard.
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- [blows landing]
- [man grunting]
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But in this brutal world,
loyalty comes cheap.
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It's a funny thing, loyalty.
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Can flip on a coin.
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[narrator] Captain Henry Jennings,
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a posh pirate,
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is Hornigold's archrival.
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And it isn't just loyalty
to each other that's tested.
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[clamor of battle]
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They've got rich attacking Spanish ships.
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But, when the war with Spain ends in 1714,
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these British pirates
turn on their own crown.
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Fuck that sausage-eating
ass-wipe, King George. [spits]
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[pirates laugh]
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[narrator] England's merchant ships
trade in a commodity so precious
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they call it "black gold."
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It's the slave trade.
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You're no longer slaves!
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You are now subject to the laws of piracy.
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[narrator]
For many slaves, this means liberty.
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But mess with the powerful slave traders...
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[indistinct clamor, men shouting]
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...at your peril.
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I want them dead!
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[narrator] The Empire strikes back.
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[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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[indistinct tavern chatter]
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[narrator] Captain Henry Jennings
is on the run from the English Crown.
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He's threatened the peace
with Spain by robbing their ships.
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And we were having such a nice time.
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[narrator] He's forced to take
refuge in Hornigold's pirate lair.
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Now, now, Edward, we must be charitable.
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Hello, Henry. Welcome to Nassau.
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- I see you brought your lapdog with you.
- [both snicker]
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[scoffs] Don't expect me
to lick my own balls, surely?
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[Fox] Jennings and Hornigold
had been privateers during the war,
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they'd both been employed
by Archibald Hamilton
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to defend Jamaica,
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um, but they had
quite different social backgrounds.
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[narrator] Henry Jennings is
a plantation owner based out of Jamaica
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and looks down
on Hornigold, the uncouth sailor.
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It would have had to have been awkward
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once Jennings was
resident full-time in Nassau,
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in that Hornigold was
the founder of the pirate nest.
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They represented two sort of
competing power bases and factions.
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Keep him on a leash though, will you?
This is a nice establishment.
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Don't want him
shitting all over the floor.
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So, I hear you're a wanted man, Captain.
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[Williams] Ooh, that must be frustrating,
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forced to hide out here
with the likes of us. [snarls]
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[narrator] Paulsgrave Williams
and Black Sam Bellamy
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were once part of Jennings' crew.
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[sinister music]
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No, no, please. No. Please, no.
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[narrator] But Bellamy can't stomach
Jennings' brutal brand of piracy...
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[prisoner] No. Oh.
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What are you doing? Stop!
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[narrator]...and jumped ship
to Hornigold's Flying Gang.
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Give you more time to walk your dog.
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Feed him a bone.
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I'll give you a fucking bone!
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[dramatic music]
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You will do nothing.
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Thatch, you'd better
make your friend stand down.
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Caesar's a free man to do as he pleases.
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And if he pleases to slit your throat,
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I'll be there
to mop up the floor afterwards.
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[Hornigold chuckles]
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[Woodward]
Jennings and Hornigold both realize that
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each of them and their faction
needed the Pirate Republic to succeed,
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and that meant at least tacit cooperation.
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[narrator]
It makes for a volatile alliance.
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Loyalty is hard won.
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It's also easily lost.
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Hornigold's loyalty to the English Crown
is not shared by all his men.
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It's a funny thing, loyalty.
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Can flip on a coin.
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I mean, I've heard
your men aren't too happy
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about passing up all that English loot,
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and that some might be looking
to join up with young Bellamy there,
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who apparently has no such qualms.
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[dramatic music]
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For more than a hundred years,
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English pirates had attacked what
were traditionally enemies of England,
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either Spanish or Portuguese ships.
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But the 17-teens,
for really the first time,
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uh, English pirates
actively engaged English shipping.
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[female historian] Hornigold, because he's
been in a dominant leadership position
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in this community,
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is actually quite typical
of piracy culture at the time.
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He has tried very hard
to not target British shipping,
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given his history as a privateer.
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I'm not attacking British ships.
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I'm English.
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Whatever the fuck that means out here.
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[Lunsford] Bellamy doesn't
have the same prohibitions.
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They want to consider any merchant ship
fair game, if the opportunity allows.
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[narrator] The new British King
is a German, George I.
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He doesn't even speak English.
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Fuck England!
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And fuck that sausage-eating
ball-bag they've stuck on the throne.
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Well, they don't care about us out here.
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Never have.
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They just want to keep
the money rolling in.
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What my good friend Paulsgrave
is trying to say is, with respect,
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we're going after anything we can.
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And if it's flying a Union Jack, so be it.
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[indistinct tavern chatter]
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We need to be careful with that one.
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The most deadliest of the species.
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But the most fun.
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[narrator] Anne Bonny,
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who will become
the most famous woman pirate,
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has her own ax
to grind against the English.
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As an Irish Catholic, she owes no loyalty
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to the Protestant oppressors
of her homeland.
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Men take what they want
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when they want.
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They steal, they lie,
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they murder and they cheat one another.
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And if you're weak,
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someone steals up in the night,
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fucks you, and slits your throat.
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[soft music]
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[chuckles softly]
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What do you want?
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[chuckles]
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I just want to make my fortune
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and go home to England a rich man.
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England?
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You want to go back
to the cold and the rain?
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To the kings and the laws and the taxes?
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Nobody in that godforsaken hole
gives one shit for you.
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Hmm.
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If it were me,
I'd pirate for the rest my days
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and murder anyone that tried to stop me.
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[sighs] You know, I love Nassau,
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but one day,
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they're coming for us.
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[somber music]
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[narrator] It's not long
before Hornigold's loyalty to England
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is put to the test.
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It's a merchant ship.
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When faced with the actual
opportunity to take an English ship,
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Hornigold demurs,
doesn't want to actually do this.
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[Bellamy] To hell with him.
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Bellamy, no problem at all.
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Hoist the black flag!
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Because this offers
a possibility for greater enrichment,
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and that Hornigold is too restrictive.
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[cannon fire echoing]
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[clamor of battle]
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[narrator] Bellamy's success
undermines Hornigold
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in the eyes of his crew.
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[clinking]
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[clamor of battle]
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It might look like a mutiny
under conventional terms,
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if you saw this in
the merchant service or the naval service.
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Really isn't, among pirates.
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It's relatively well known
that there's this kind of idea of
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democracy on board a pirate ship,
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but I think it's misunderstood,
how profound it was.
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Every single individual
has a vote, no matter who.
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And if the organization decides that
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the captain's not operating
with enough bravery or strategy,
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they can depose him
and elect a new captain in.
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[narrator] Hornigold's
trusted lieutenant, Edward Thatch,
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organizes a democratic vote.
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So, we're all agreed?
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You're happy with your decision?
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So it is.
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The fact that Bellamy is inspiring them
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and saying that he will
pursue all sorts of quarry
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would be appealing
to a number of these pirates.
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Yeah, you should go, Henry.
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Join up with Bellamy, he's a good man.
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He'll see you right.
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[somber music]
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The men have voted.
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[clears throat]
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And what's their decision?
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They want Bellamy as their captain.
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And Williams will be his quartermaster.
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Loved and respected as he is,
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Hornigold loses the vote
by approximately two thirds to one,
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and, with respect, is asked to stand down,
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and is no longer commodore of the fleet.
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And what about you?
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We're sticking with you, my friend.
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Our image of pirates tends to be
of lawless men who obey no rules
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and are loyal only to themselves,
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and so it's surprising when
we encounter these moments of loyalty,
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like that showed to Hornigold.
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I won't forget this.
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I'm gonna get a ship and make you captain.
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And we're gonna be a force,
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make no fucking mistake.
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[waves splashing]
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[gulls crying]
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[woman moaning]
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[man grunting]
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[sighs, laughs]
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[narrator]
Hornigold finds comfort with Anne Bonny.
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She's become a pirate to escape her past.
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[Hornigold]
Your husband, James, does he mind you...?
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[Anne] James is a spineless child.
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I should have never married him.
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You don't much care for men, do you, Anne?
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They have their uses,
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but mostly, they're weak.
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My father was weak.
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He had me out of wedlock
with a servant girl.
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He didn't cast us out.
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No,
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he raised me as a little boy,
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right under his wife's nose.
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Brought me into the household
and introduced me
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as one of his junior clerks.
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Of course, it wasn't long before
his wife discovered the truth of it.
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And he left her,
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took me and my ma
to America to start a new life.
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He goes into business and makes
more money than he ever did as a lawyer.
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So, he is the head
of this prosperous estate
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and Anne is, from the age of 12,
mistress of that estate.
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Her mother passed away
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not long after they moved
to the American colonies.
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And I came into my womanhood.
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And his conscience
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didn't stop him
from finding his way to my bed.
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Then I met James,
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and he seemed like a way to escape.
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But he was just a trap.
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Just like all men.
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- [action music]
- [clamor of battle]
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[narrator]
The legend of Sam Bellamy is growing.
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He's now known as Black Sam,
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because of his raven-colored hair.
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[Woodward] He was
a very good marine tactician,
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daring and innovative,
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and seems rather fearless.
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Your manifest, and quick about it!
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[Woodward] You get a sense,
following his career and the pace
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of the vessels he attacks,
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that this is somebody who's in a hurry
to get to somewhere or something.
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[narrator] And that somebody
is the love of his life,
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Mary Hallett,
the woman he's promised to marry,
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and now the mother of his child.
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[baby cooing]
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At this point,
her parents abandoned her completely,
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because, the shame of it.
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You know, a child born out of wedlock?
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Disgusting. So, she hides the baby.
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[narrator]
But where there's life, there's hope.
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And Black Sam is making good
on his promise to return a rich man.
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"The notorious pirate, Samuel Bellamy,
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did capture and rob
the vessel Morning Star off Cape Cod."
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[clamor of battle]
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"Much gold was taken,
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along with valuable items
from passengers aboard."
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His name has spread like wildfire.
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He is one of the world's
most notorious pirates already,
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just a few months after leaving her.
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"But no man was hurt, and the vessel
was allowed to continue its journey."
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They'll hang you for this.
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I'll be back.
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He's going to come for us.
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Then we'll be together, wealthy.
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- [baby coos]
- You see?
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Shh, shh, shh, shh.
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[narrator] But, for Bellamy,
piracy is about more than gold.
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[Woodward] He was clearly driven by
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the social rebellion aspect of piracy.
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Think of me as a, uh, a Robin Hood.
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Bellamy is renowned
for being very fair and just
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when he deals with ships
that he's acquired.
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Right, I need men with skills.
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He really takes pride
in giving the crews that he captures
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the opportunity to join him,
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the opportunity to throw off
the shackles of oppression.
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Unlike the merchant navy
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and those scumbag businessmen
who work you to death
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and flog you to ribbons
when the mood catches them, we...
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we will pay you like kings.
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And if you don't like my decisions,
you can vote for a new captain.
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That's right, every man has a vote,
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and an equal share
of any treasure we take.
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So, why work like a dog,
and get whipped like one, too,
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just to put money
in the pockets of some rich tosser
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who gives you
a handful of copper as payment?
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So, any of you looking for a better life...
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this is your chance.
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[narrator] While Bellamy is sharing out
the booty taken from British traders,
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recruits flock to join him.
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And they start young.
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[Fox] One of the passengers
was a boy called John King.
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His family were relatively wealthy,
and he was traveling with his mother.
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You're Black Sam Bellamy,
the Robin Hood of the seas.
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You steal from the rich
and give to the poor.
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He thought that
the pirates were so exciting
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and enticing and romantic
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that he begged his mother
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to allow him
to go and join the pirate crew.
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Don't believe everything you read, boy.
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Maybe we rob.
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Maybe we murder.
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Maybe we string up little boys
and throw 'em to the sharks.
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I don't care, I want to be a pirate.
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[gasps]
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Then welcome aboard, John King.
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John King would probably have found
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that his dreams were met
with disappointment.
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The majority of the time,
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pirate life wasn't as exciting as
he had seen it when they'd captured him.
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[narrator]
Bellamy is fast becoming a rich man...
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[cannon fire echoing]
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...and he's doing it
at the expense of England's trade
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with her American colonies.
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[Woodward] The Governor
of Virginia, Alexander Spotswood,
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receives reports,
how the pirate nest is growing
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and hatching more and more pirates,
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and that the pirates are
becoming a destabilizing danger
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to trade and commerce.
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Spotswood is the governor
of a royal colony that's producing
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an incredibly valuable
commodity in tobacco,
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and so he is responsible
for protecting those tobacco fleets.
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The entire economy of the Chesapeake Bay
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depended on production of tobacco
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and its eventual sale back in England.
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[narrator] But worse is to come.
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The pirates will soon target the trade
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which makes the British Empire tick.
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Slavery.
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[men coughing]
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The danger is very clear.
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I mean, Spotswood
and other governors are all forwarding
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increasingly urgent dispatches
back to their masters in London.
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Starting to clamor
with more and more insistence
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that something
is going to need to be done.
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[dramatic music]
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[waves splashing]
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[narrator] Bellamy isn't the only member
of the Flying Gang making waves.
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[breathes heavily]
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They say that
if Anne Bonny takes a shine to you,
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you're on the up.
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Anne was always
looking to build her fortune.
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She was always looking for that adventure.
Looking for that next best opportunity.
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[breathes heavily]
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[narrator] And the man
making quite a stir is Edward Thatch,
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the Latin-speaking pirate scholar.
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[romantic music]
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[speaking Latin]
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At a time when literacy
was the exception, not the rule,
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Edward Thatch knew how to read and write.
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[Anne] Where'd you learn that?
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A book.
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You read?
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It's amazing what you can find
through some pages of Latin poetry.
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He kept a journal,
which is unlike many of the pirates,
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so he's educated
and literate and thoughtful,
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and understands the need
to keep his thoughts.
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[both breathing heavily]
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Who are you?
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A frustrated pirate.
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A dangerous pirate.
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[scoffs]
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An orphaned son of plantation owners.
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I'm nothin'.
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I'm nobody.
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[Conniff] Thatcher's career has
been relatively quiet up to this point.
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He's been overlooked
for promotion once or twice.
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In fact, Bellamy's been given a promotion.
Bellamy's a much younger man than he is.
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Thatch has played his hand
very, very carefully,
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always loyal to his mentor, Hornigold.
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[narrator] He is now helping rebuild
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the deposed Hornigold's pirate fleet.
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Come on, Benjamin.
Bring 'em to me, Benjamin.
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[cannon fire echoing]
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He is thoughtful,
observant, and quite the strategist.
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He knew how to manage a ship.
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He knew how to manage men.
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He really was a man
who knew what he was doing.
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Faster! Come on!
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He makes himself indispensable
to Hornigold in a short period of time.
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- Load your cannons!
- [pirate] Cannons full.
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[Blackbeard] Prime your weapons!
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- [cannon fire echoing]
- [clamor of battle]
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[narrator]
And while not every chase ends in success,
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it isn't long before Hornigold
makes good on his promise to Thatch.
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[jaunty hornpipe music]
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00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,880
It's time to introduce you
to your new captain.
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[Thatch laughs]
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They're all yours.
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00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:01,920
It's speech time.
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Gentlemen!
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[chuckles softly]
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- Pirate scum!
- [pirates] Yay!
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- Whore's sons!
- [pirates] Yay!
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Out there is an ocean full of big,
fat fish waiting to be swallowed.
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[laughs]
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And we're gonna get so rich,
we'll be shittin' gold.
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[pirates] Yay!
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[bottle shattering]
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For Thatch,
it means his first personal command.
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[pirates cheering]
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[narrator]
It's the beginning of a new pirate legend,
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and bad news
for the English slave traders.
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[jaunty hornpipe music]
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So, what's the plan?
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Take what we can.
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No bloodshed, no deaths.
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And we need
to find ourselves a bigger boat.
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He's a well-respected leader and captain,
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absolutely fearless as a pirate,
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yet, like Bellamy,
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there's no record
of him ever killing anyone.
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There's some brutal violence
along the way, undoubtedly,
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but there's some other acts of humanity
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that speak quite outside
of the typical pirate archetype.
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Which is interesting.
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[jaunty hornpipe music]
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I never knew you were musical, Caesar.
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What you don't know
about me could fill a book.
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[laughing]
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[jaunty hornpipe music continues]
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[Fox]
Black Caesar is one of those characters
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who has all these wonderful,
wonderful stories around him.
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Um, one of the best ones is,
perhaps, that he was an African prince
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before he was captured
and sold into slavery.
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The trouble is that, in reality,
we actually know almost nothing about him,
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until he appears on Thatcher's ship.
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[thunder rumbling]
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[narrator] Slavery is the
dirty business that drives British trade.
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The slave trade involved
taking slaves from Africa
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and carrying them across to the Caribbean
and to the American colonies
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and stocking up there
on goods from those regions
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and bringing them back to England
in a sort of triangular trade.
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[narrator] Imagine, human beings
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torn from their families and home,
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brutally dragged halfway across the world,
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used as human currency,
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the price of the West's growing addiction.
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There's one word that can explain
why slaves were so necessary
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to the colonies in the 18th century,
and that word is sugar,
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which goes from being
a luxury to a perceived necessity
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to European diets and palates.
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Every European nation has
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an overseas colony producing sugar.
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It's being produced in Brazil,
it's being produced in Jamaica,
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it's being produced in St. Domingue,
which would become Haiti.
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[narrator] But slaves
are more than currency.
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Once exchanged for sugar,
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they are put to work growing more.
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[Walker] It's really backbreaking work.
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And it's work that led
to a tremendous loss of life,
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and did not allow for people,
enslaved people,
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to do much other than work
from sunup to sundown.
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[door creaking]
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[Walker] From the perspective
of the pirates, they're encountering
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something they had
likely never seen before:
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people in inhumanely crowded conditions...
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[people moaning]
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...who have been at sea for months.
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[flies buzzing]
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[moaning]
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[crying, shuddering]
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They were all chained together below deck,
hundreds and hundreds of them,
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well beyond capacity.
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They couldn't even sit upright.
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They were covered in feces, urine, vomit.
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This led to rampant disease going through,
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particularly dysentery,
because of contaminated water.
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One in five enslaved people generally died
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on the travel through the middle passage.
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[people sobbing, coughing]
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[narrator] The slave trade
is worth billions of pounds every year
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to the money men in London.
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Unfortunately for them,
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their ships are forced to pass through
the pirate waters of the Caribbean.
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[Fox] There was no alternative route.
You couldn't just go round the pirates.
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So, every ship that sailed
would be at risk from pirate attack.
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And, suddenly,
the circulation flow was being cut off,
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it was too dangerous for a lot of vessels
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to venture along major trade routes,
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especially the ones
that were immediately adjacent
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to the Bahamas and their pirate lair.
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[narrator] When the pirates
start targeting the slave ships,
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the merchants' profits take a big hit.
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And the bolder the pirates get,
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the bigger the armed ships
the English merchants need
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to protect their lucrative slave trade.
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Slave ships required certain
characteristics. They needed to be big
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00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,280
so that they could hold
the largest number of slaves possible.
506
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,080
They needed to be fast.
507
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,200
Because, the longer they spent
at sea crossing the Atlantic,
508
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,240
the more slaves were
likely to die on the voyage.
509
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,080
[thunder rumbling]
510
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,680
But, above all, they needed
to be reasonably well armed,
511
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,480
so that they could defend themselves
from pirates and other attacks.
512
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,160
[gulls crying]
513
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,120
[narrator] Back at the heart
of the British Empire,
514
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:51,520
leading slave trader Humphry Morice
is admiring his latest weapon.
515
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,360
[Morice] Beautiful, isn't she?
516
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,320
The Whydah will be
one of the fastest ships on the sea.
517
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,800
Humphry Morice was a Member of Parliament.
518
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,720
He was also one of the early
governors of the Bank of England.
519
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,000
So, he was a very prominent
person in British society.
520
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,440
He was also a merchant,
521
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,960
and he commissioned
the building of the Whydah,
522
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,320
the slave ship.
523
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:26,200
The Whydah was a purpose-built slave ship.
524
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,840
It was swift
and could carry up to 28 guns.
525
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,920
Eight knots with the wind in her sails.
526
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,840
And she will carry
up to 500 slaves across three decks.
527
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,120
[Morice chuckles]
528
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,080
She's certainly impressive.
529
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,560
And a sizable investment, too, I imagine.
530
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,720
The ship cost 20,000.
531
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:57,240
But the slaves should make
ten times that amount at auctions.
532
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,040
A tidy profit.
533
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,680
Of course, you'll only make that profit
534
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,200
if Captain Prince here
comes back with your ship.
535
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,520
On my honor, sir.
536
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,240
This is just the latest report
sent back from Jamaica.
537
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,800
The pirates are getting bolder,
538
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,120
and it appears they are favoring
slaving vessels as prize targets.
539
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,360
The Whydah was one of
the most advanced and dangerous,
540
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,240
you know, weapon systems out there,
541
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,480
and exactly the sort of vessel
that a pirate might want to capture.
542
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:40,880
There is no way that a bunch
of pirates is going to take the Whydah.
543
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,080
[foreboding music]
544
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,000
[narrator] Back in the Caribbean,
545
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,080
Bellamy and Williams
have seized their biggest prize yet,
546
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,600
a ship called the Sultana,
whose captain is deathly ill.
547
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,480
Oh, you're not looking too good, are you?
548
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,040
We'll get you out of here,
and no harm will come to your crew.
549
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,440
Get off my ship, you guttersnipes.
550
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,520
[laughs]
551
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,280
[laughing] Where's your gratitude?
552
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,840
You'll be laughing
on the other side of your face.
553
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,800
The Royal Navy is onto you.
554
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,160
[Bellamy] It was only a matter of time.
555
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,680
Then perhaps
we should lie low for a while.
556
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,680
Or maybe, with this monster,
557
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,040
nobody is gonna wanna fuck with us, hmm?
558
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:46,960
Bellamy's capture of the Sultana allows
him to step up to yet another level.
559
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,680
It really increased
his capabilities for piracy.
560
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,000
It increased his armament enormously.
And it increased his prestige.
561
00:32:55,080 --> 00:33:00,440
[narrator] But the British Navy are
on the hunt for Bellamy near St. Croix.
562
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:06,200
HMS Scarborough had received intelligence
that Sam Bellamy might be in the area,
563
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:10,120
and so it was dispatched and patrolling
and on the prowl to try to find Bellamy.
564
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,120
[narrator] Confident they had pirates
in their sights, the Navy lets loose.
565
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,280
- [cannon fire echoing]
- [sailors yelling]
566
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,760
[narrator] The British sail away,
567
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:28,240
convinced they've done lasting damage,
and force the pirates to shore.
568
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,520
[narrator] But, later that evening,
569
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,680
Bellamy does arrive at St. Croix
570
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,840
and its bloody aftermath.
571
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,760
[dramatic music]
572
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,880
- [man groaning]
- Is that you Martel?
573
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,480
What the fuck happened?
574
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,200
[in French]
The English whores sunk our fleet.
575
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,200
[somber music]
576
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,720
[in English] Navy boys did
a proper job on Martel's mob.
577
00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:19,840
They are not messing around anymore.
578
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,160
- Do you think they were looking for us?
- That's what I was wondering.
579
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,640
[narrator] Before they were attacked,
580
00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:30,200
Martel's gang had
captured a ship full of slaves.
581
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,880
There's 40 of 'em now, but Martel says
582
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,800
they had another 60 chained in the hold
before Scarborough sunk his ship.
583
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,160
[somber music]
584
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,360
So, what are we gonna do with them?
585
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,200
We can use 'em.
586
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,520
[Walker] For some African slaves,
587
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,640
it opened up a world of possibility
588
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:10,480
and the potential
for freedom and mobility,
589
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,000
and even adventure,
in the world of piracy.
590
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,440
Joining the pirate crew
wasn't necessarily great,
591
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,040
but it was still an awful lot
better than being a slave,
592
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,880
and that would have been
a very encouraging step up for them.
593
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,360
The idea that you could
have free African men
594
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,680
actually being capable
of not only sailing a ship,
595
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,960
but dominating British merchant vessels,
596
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,600
it was terrifying.
597
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,240
It would have destroyed
the entire economy.
598
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,560
[waves splashing]
599
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:47,160
[narrator] Black Sam Bellamy continues
to be the scourge of the British Empire.
600
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,080
Back in Cape Cod,
601
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,120
his lover, Mary Hallett, is struggling
to bring up their baby alone.
602
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,440
[somber piano music]
603
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,640
[softly] My love.
604
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:11,880
My love.
605
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:15,920
All right, my darling.
606
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,240
[gasps]
607
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:19,240
My love?
608
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:20,880
The baby didn't make it,
609
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:26,160
and, at the time, the only thing worse
than having a baby outside of wedlock
610
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:27,360
was losing one.
611
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,760
[sobs]
612
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:35,320
[sobbing] No. No.
613
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:38,960
[crying] No!
614
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,520
She was suspected
of having killed the child herself.
615
00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:49,480
[whispering] I didn't kill her.
616
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:55,800
[echoing] Didn't kill her.
Didn't kill her. I didn't kill her.
617
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,120
[policeman]
Mary Hallett, you're under arrest.
618
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,400
- I didn't kill her.
- Come with me.
619
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,320
I didn't. Didn't kill her.
620
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,440
[narrator] Black Sam
is unaware of Mary's predicament.
621
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,640
But opportunity beckons in the Caribbean
622
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,880
in the form
of a colossal slave trading ship.
623
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,400
[dramatic music]
624
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,520
[Woodward]
The Whydah arrived in Port Royal
625
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,000
and then succeeded
in selling a human cargo of slaves.
626
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,120
[indistinct clamor]
627
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,640
When they left Port Royal
and began their final leg back to London,
628
00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:32,960
their ship now loaded
with valuable treasure.
629
00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:37,800
[narrator] Between Hispaniola and Cuba,
630
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,600
the Whydah's lookout
spots ships on the horizon.
631
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,320
[dramatic music]
632
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,600
[Woodward]
Captain Lawrence Prince at first thinks
633
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,000
that they must be a Royal Navy detachment.
634
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,200
Shit.
635
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,040
But, pretty soon, he realizes that,
no, he's being chased by pirates.
636
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,640
The black flag at the masthead
told them what they had in store.
637
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,920
[narrator] As Bellamy and Williams
close in on the Whydah,
638
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,600
they know
they have a fight on their hands.
639
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,320
That is a beast with teeth.
640
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,360
Twenty or more cannon.
641
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,480
The things we could do
with a ship like that.
642
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,640
[narrator]
The Whydah speeds towards the open ocean,
643
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,040
but Bellamy refuses to give up.
644
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,280
The chase lasts for three days
and over 300 miles
645
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,400
before finally Bellamy and his crew
get into cannon fire range.
646
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,720
There's three ships against one.
647
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,800
But that big bastard
could sink one of us before we take her.
648
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:48,880
Maybe.
649
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,200
But... we have a weapon
650
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,320
that'll make 'em shit their pants.
651
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,080
[Bellamy] Sorted.
652
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,040
[waves splashing]
653
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,400
[narrator] As Bellamy's ship
pulls alongside the Whydah,
654
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,560
the slave ship's crew
face their worst nightmare.
655
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:16,840
Fuck me!
656
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,160
[men yelling]
657
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,280
Bellamy goes with
the psychological terror gambit,
658
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:36,400
maybe 20 or so are Africans,
unshackled and armed.
659
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:42,360
So, for a man who had just
carried slaves across the Atlantic,
660
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,120
this would be a terrifying prospect.
661
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,560
Imagine the revenge
that these men would want to wreak
662
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,920
on the captain of a slave ship.
663
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,240
[narrator] Slaves in shackles
mean nothing to Captain Prince,
664
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,400
but slaves with cutlasses...
665
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,920
Drop your weapons and lower the sails.
666
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,360
[narrator] It is a master class
in psychological warfare.
667
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,480
[coins and jewelry clinking]
668
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:13,160
When pirates captured merchant ships,
often they found sugar, tobacco,
669
00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,120
things that had some value,
670
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,320
but are not really exciting,
671
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,040
and not really valuable
unless you can trade them.
672
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,640
When they captured the Whydah,
673
00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:24,560
they found the holds
were filled with gold.
674
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:26,760
This was the mother lode,
675
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,600
it was the thing
that all pirates dreamed of capturing.
676
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,440
Fuck me.
677
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,400
[laughing] Fuck!
678
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,200
This is enough to retire on.
679
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:38,600
[Bellamy] Almost enough.
680
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,240
With this much firepower,
we could take down anything.
681
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,160
The capture of the Whydah
made Bellamy's name.
682
00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:49,400
He's got an enormous flagship.
683
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:54,600
This was the moment that not only Bellamy,
but any pirate would be building towards.
684
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,880
[gulls crying]
685
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,160
[narrator] When news gets back
to London, all hell breaks loose.
686
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:03,800
Bloody pirates! Pirates...
687
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,080
[narrator] The soon-to-be Governor
of the Bank of England, Humphry Morice...
688
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,000
Gentlemen.
689
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,120
...has had enough.
690
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,680
[Morice] Gentlemen,
691
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,920
we have all suffered.
692
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,320
We have all lost to these heathen pirates,
693
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,080
these traitors
694
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:24,360
who dare to rob our ships,
695
00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:26,760
take our goods
696
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,960
and kidnap good Christian men.
697
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:35,120
My ship, the Whydah, was taken,
698
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,520
and now the insurers are saying
699
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:43,600
the premium for my next
slaving expedition will be increased.
700
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,600
Even the people
who weren't losing ships to the pirates
701
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,680
were still feeling
the effects of the pirates.
702
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,760
[somber music]
703
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,880
The pirate menace was becoming such
that merchants were afraid to sail,
704
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,360
and that meant that
commerce wasn't just being harassed,
705
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:00,920
it was being cut off.
706
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:05,480
The pirates are becoming
an existential threat to the empires,
707
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:06,920
not merely a nuisance.
708
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,400
There is a very real danger
709
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,880
that the business of slaving
710
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:14,640
could become unprofitable,
711
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:16,880
and indeed
712
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:18,600
end.
713
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,560
Unless something is done.
714
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,720
[sinister music]
715
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,320
That's why I have invited
here tonight a man you all know.
716
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:35,160
A privateer.
717
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,920
A man who has made it his business
718
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,400
to hunt down pirates.
719
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:43,680
A patriot.
720
00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:50,400
[narrator] And so,
the pirates' nemesis enters the tale.
721
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:54,640
Gentlemen, Captain Woodes Rogers.
722
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,920
[narrator] A man who seeks
one thing against the pirates.
723
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,200
Revenge.
724
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,720
[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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