Sharing Stories of The Sunken Prize

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

A recent three-year project by two independent scholars produced a book summarizing the discovery, recovery, and artifact analyses of a French privateer and slave transport, Concorde, that ended its service under control of pirates as Queen Anne’s Revenge. It was a ship with more than one life and purpose. The book, titled Blackbeard’s Sunken Prize: the 300-year Voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge (UNC Press), distilled over 20 years of excavation, conservation and research. Working in collaboration with various archaeologists, conservators, historians, museums, and other specialists, the story of this shipwreck is presented in a readable and accessible format, lavishly illustrated and footnoted. Published in June 2018, it marks the 300th anniversary of the sinking. Within the volume, the stories are told through the artifacts and features recovered on-site and through the voices of its crew members, kidnapped passengers, and the enslaved cargo who were onboard that fateful day.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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