With its shallow inlets, North Carolina’s Outer Banks became a haven for many pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 @ 2:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Oct. 25, Angus Konstam, historian and pirate expert, led an audience of Greenville community members and East Carolina Univerity faculty, staff and students through a brief history of the pirate Blackbeard during his discussion, "Blackbeard at 300: New Findings on North Carolina's Most (In)famous
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2018 @ 12:13 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Serving on the vestry of Saint Thomas Parish in Bath with the (supposedly hanged) pirate, Edward Salter is Blackbeard's widow's second husband, John Barrow.
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 9:35 am
By: Eugene Bowers Grant, Jr
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Blackbeard, if not a native son of the Bath area, was an adopted son with blood relatives living in the area. He had the trust of the local families. He organized a core of about 20 men from the Bath area. The majority of these men were connected by blood.
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ 9:58 pm
By: Eugene Bowers Grant, Jr
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Settlement of he Pamlico area of eastern North Carolina was first attempted by the English when the Lost Colony was established on Roanoke Island in 1585.
Published: Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Eugene Bowers Grant, Jr
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The February issue of Smithsonian has a most interesting story for me: "The Last Days of Blackbeard" by Colin Woodard gives a brief overview of things discovered in about the last 10-20 years of contemporary research.
Published: Sunday, March 16th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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If you've spent any time learning about pirates, you've likely heard of Blackbeard. Author Kevin Duffus says what you think you know about Blackbeard might be very different...
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2013 @ 5:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On December 28, 1700, Lawson -- with a party of five Englishmen and various Indian guides picked up along the way -- set out on a brave journey through the wastes of Carolina.
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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His administration is known for bringing more control to the colony. Sixty-one laws were passed, including provisions punishing libel against public officials and participants in riots.
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2012 @ 9:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Outer Banks are a series of barrier islands that stretch nearly 200 miles along the North Carolina coast.
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2012 @ 10:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first settlers were French Protestants from Virginia. Among early inhabitants were John Lawson, surveyor general of the colony and author of the first history of Carolina (1709), and Christopher Gale, first chief justice of the colony.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 9:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"If you would understand anything," wrote Aristotle, "observe its beginning and its development." Without a solid grounding in the history of our state, North Carolinians cannot hope to chart the right course for the future.
Published: Friday, March 23rd, 2012 @ 10:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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