Pirate Freedom: Is Chris Blackbeard?

Robert Pirkola · 28 Apr 2015, 20:26 · from 2015-April.txt.gz

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From: rpirkola at hotmail.com (Robert Pirkola)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:26:14 +0000
Subject: (urth)  Pirate Freedom: Is Chris Blackbeard?
Message-ID: <BAY172-W3351FAB80C6C80ED82EBFDFE80 at phx.gbl>

I can say fairly certainly that Chris is not Blackbeard.  Textual evidence strongly suggests that?
*Pirate Freedom* takes place (in its bulk) in the late 1670's.  Edward Teach is generally thought to have been
born in 1680 or thereabouts so it seems impossible.  Having read a great deal on pirates lately, I have not
been able to pinpoint any that scream out as being "who Chris is".  My own thoughts are that he is
not meant to be a stand-in for any particular historical pirate.

On April 28, 2015 Robin B. Smith wrote:
since Pirate Freedom was brought up here, before I go off and start a new
email chain, I've been wondering: has it been discussed that Chris may be
Blackbeard? (I did some cursory searching previously, but found no
discussion of that point expressly)

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