The Truth About Pirates

Edward Teach or more commonly know as Blackbeard quickly became known as on the the greatest pirates of his time. Although his reign of terror did not last very long it was really only about two years where he was being an active pirate. He lived in England and would attack ships heading to the American colonies and some in the Caribbean sea. The one attack that set Blackbeard up for most of his success was when him and his crew attacked La concord. La concord was a 200-ton slave ship with 16 cannons that was on its third trip across the Atlantic when Blackbeard's crew set eyes on it.  Although it might have seemed like a difficult task to take down La Concord it was actually a very easy target for him and his crew. Blackbeard had 150 crew members while La Concord only had 60 and over half the crew was sick with dysentery and scurvy. Once they got ahold of it they renamed it queen annes revenge which remained Blackbeard's primary ship until June of 1718 when it was wre

Pirates used various ways to torture victims of crime . most of the ways that were used upon pirate ship were extremely true and violent. Being a pirate meant there were numerous ways you could find your self in the position where you were being punished. If your stole or did not follow the orders of the ship given out by the captain of the ship you could find your self in a lot of trouble which ended with being punched in a very cruel way. as mentioned in the pirates code of conduct, no boy or women was allowed on the ship and if they were t find one on board they would been killed. if you leaved at a time of war when you are found you will be marooned. All of the previous offenses could get your nose and ears slit and be left on the next land that was reached on the ship. You could be put to death. keel hauling was a well known torture device that is when they tie you to ropes that go under the boat and pull each of the ropes one at a time making you scrape against the bottom of