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Blackbeard

Artifacts pulled from the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge offer a glimpse into the bloody decades of the early 18th century, when pirates ruled the Carolina coast

In an era that condoned smuggling and lawbreaking the transition from privateer to pirate was easy

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