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DescriptionBlackbeard head bow.gif
Blackbeard's head hanging from the bowsprit of the sloop Jane
Date
circa 1837
date QS:P,+1837-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source
Angus Konstam, Blackbeard (2007), page 260; this image was originally published in Ellms, Charles (1837) "The Life, Atrocities, and Bloody Death of Black Beard" in The Pirates Own Book, Massachusetts, United States: Samuel Nelson Dickinson Retrieved on 14 April 2010.
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From: http://www.piratehaven.org/~beej/pirates/images/black2.gif Contemporary image of Blackbeard's head hanging from Maynard's bowsprint (Blackbeard aka Edward Teach)
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