Stede Bonnet - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Stede Bonnet & Blackbeard Pirate History’s Greatest Mystery. The page in the video is from an original 1724 first edition of A General History of the Pyrates. And it tells us something astonishing. According to this first printing, Edward Thatch — the man later known as Edward Teach — “ship’d himself as a foremast-man” under Stede Bonnet. Translation? Before he became Blackbeard… Before the burning fuses… Before the legend… Thatch was just crew. A working sailor on the ship of a wealthy Barbados