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Blackbeard and his fleet sail the Atlantic coast and Caribbean capturing many ships and enriching themselves. Andrew Morgan from Virginia, Blackbeard’s gunner, invests his shares with a banker in Philadelphia. Andrew visits friends in Virginia and agrees to bring along young Benjamin Harrison on one of his spring voyages. Ben, raised as nephew to Sarah Harrison Blair, is eighteen, has just completed his studies, and has been promised in marriage to a daughter of King Carter of Virginia.
Ben witnesses Blackbeard’s election as captain and impresses Blackbeard with his education and family background. Blackbeard allows him to become assistant navigator on his ship and Ben is included, along with the navigator, in meetings of the ship’s officers. When they get to the Bahamas, Ben, who has made enemies, duels with the previous assistant navigator. He also meets the governor of Jamaica and becomes aware of the dangers awaiting Blackbeard and other privateers.
Upon their return to the mainland Andrew marries his banker’s daughter and is present when Blackbeard blockades Charles Towne harbor. Ben, who has received a small ship from Blackbeard for his hard work at sea, returns to Virginia and is elected burgess.
Ben meets Governor Spotswood and participates in Spotswood’s fall in Virginia politics. Ben also learns of Spotswood’s plan to murder Blackbeard and travels to Ocracoke trying to warn the captain. There, from another ship, he witnesses Blackbeard’s assassination at the hands of Spotswood’s hired killers.
Andrew and Ben live through the aftermath: trials, executions, political recrimination from London and North Carolina, Spotswood’s seizure of large tracts of property, and Spotswood's eventual replacement as governor. This is followed by marriages, new families, new businesses, the growth of trade and manufacturing, and fond memories of Blackbeard.
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Blackbeard'sLegacy,covering the years 1710 to 1722, continues the narrative of personal andpolitical rivalries rampant among the prominent tobacco growers and variouspolitical figures in Williamsburg. This volume, however, entertains readerswith its focus on the rise of piracy along our eastern coast. With the pacingof an adventure story Captain Thatch, aka Blackbeard, plies his lucrative tradealong the coast of Virginia and the Carolinas. We learn a good deal ofsurprising information about that esoteric trade. Many pirates were formerlyprivateers fighting for Queen Anne in her struggle with Spain. As England wasimpoverished by the long war, the Royal Navy released most of the privateerswith nothing but a thank you, and perhaps not even that.
Nevermind. These experienced sea captains continued to trade and carry goods withoutthe bother of 'getting licenses and paying customs.' In fact, the citizens ofour coastal towns of Virginia and the Carolinas seemingly found no objection tothe great influx of goods supplied by pirates. Though little can be verifiedabout the actual Blackbeard, the author's research uncovered enough informationabout piracy to enliven scenes aboard ship. Who knew, for example, that thecrews elected their captains, and the captains themselves campaigned seriouslyfor their position? Or that the crews were hired on in a type of employmentcontract specifying a pre-arranged portion of the booty taken from the haplessmerchant ships unfortunate enough to fall in the way of Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's ship.
Thisfictionalized Blackbeard has a definite swashbucklingdemeanor. He is surrounded by loyal comrades including young Benjamin HarrisonIV whose forebears appeared in earlier works. Now a recent graduate of William and Mary, Ben speaks fourlanguages and knows higher math which earns him a place aboard Queen Anne's Revenge as apprenticenavigator. Ben Harrison comports himself as any super hero of the day would:carrying knives in his boots, sword fighting in contests of honor, and finallyretiring to Williamsburg to marry and take up his political legacy in the Houseof Burgesses. Along the way, he forms a close friendship with the gunner AndrewMorgan whose courtship and romance add another human touch.
Politicallife in the early 18th century offered its own drama. AuthorMcLennan does not ignore the struggles between Williamsburg's representativesin the House of Burgesses and the unpopular Governor Spotswood who workeddiligently to the task of amassing sufficient funds to build a governor'spalace in Williamsburg. The parallel stories of the piracy along our easterncoast, the larger than life Blackbeard and political machinations of the periodoffer the kind of history lesson all can enjoy.
Blackbeard'sLegacyby Barbara McLennan, the third book of historical fiction that began with The Wealth of Jamestown.
Reviewed by Ann Skelton, Chesapeake Style Magazine, May 2017, Warsaw, VA
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Barbara McLennan has published eight books and numerous articles on various political, economic, and historical subjects. For two years she contributed columns and articles on local customs and local history to NorthernNeck.com, a local online newspaper serving the Rappahannock region of Virginia. Holding both Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and J.D. (Georgetown) degrees, Barbara McLennan is a former professor, association executive and high level official in the United States Departments of Commerce and Treasury. Over the last several years, she has served as docent at Jamestown Settlement, and at Historic Jamestown. She also has assisted the historian in preparation for exhibits at the new museum of the American Revolution at Yorktown. Dr. McLennan has taught in the Thomas Jefferson School of Public Policy, The College of William and Mary. She also has been a Visiting Scholar at William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business, in the MBA program. She has held a commission as member of the Governor of Virginia’s Asian Advisory Board on trade and investment and is a Board Member of the Chesapeake Bay Writers Organization.
Blackbeard'sLegacy,covering the years 1710 to 1722, continues the narrative of personal andpolitical rivalries rampant among the prominent tobacco growers and variouspolitical figures in Williamsburg. This volume, however, entertains readerswith its focus on the rise of piracy along our eastern coast. With the pacingof an adventure story Captain Thatch, aka Blackbeard, plies his lucrative tradealong the coast of Virginia and the Carolinas. We learn a good deal ofsurprising information about that esoteric trade. Many pirates were formerlyprivateers fighting for Queen Anne in her struggle with Spain. As England wasimpoverished by the long war, the Royal Navy released most of the privateerswith nothing but a thank you, and perhaps not even that.
Nevermind. These experienced sea captains continued to trade and carry goods withoutthe bother of 'getting licenses and paying customs.' In fact, the citizens ofour coastal towns of Virginia and the Carolinas seemingly found no objection tothe great influx of goods supplied by pirates. Though little can be verifiedabout the actual Blackbeard, the author's research uncovered enough informationabout piracy to enliven scenes aboard ship. Who knew, for example, that thecrews elected their captains, and the captains themselves campaigned seriouslyfor their position? Or that the crews were hired on in a type of employmentcontract specifying a pre-arranged portion of the booty taken from the haplessmerchant ships unfortunate enough to fall in the way of Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's ship.
Thisfictionalized Blackbeard has a definite swashbucklingdemeanor. He is surrounded by loyal comrades including young Benjamin HarrisonIV whose forebears appeared in earlier works. Now a recent graduate of William and Mary, Ben speaks fourlanguages and knows higher math which earns him a place aboard Queen Anne's Revenge as apprenticenavigator. Ben Harrison comports himself as any super hero of the day would:carrying knives in his boots, sword fighting in contests of honor, and finallyretiring to Williamsburg to marry and take up his political legacy in the Houseof Burgesses. Along the way, he forms a close friendship with the gunner AndrewMorgan whose courtship and romance add another human touch.
Politicallife in the early 18th century offered its own drama. AuthorMcLennan does not ignore the struggles between Williamsburg's representativesin the House of Burgesses and the unpopular Governor Spotswood who workeddiligently to the task of amassing sufficient funds to build a governor'spalace in Williamsburg. The parallel stories of the piracy along our easterncoast, the larger than life Blackbeard and political machinations of the periodoffer the kind of history lesson all can enjoy.
Blackbeard'sLegacyby Barbara McLennan, the third book of historical fiction that began with The Wealth of Jamestown.
Reviewed by Ann Skelton, Chesapeake Style Magazine, May 2017, Warsaw, VA
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- PublisherBarbara McLennan
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0998087327
- ISBN 13 9780998087320
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages264
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