Tales from the Archive

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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.

The tale of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge is a renowned aspect of North Carolinian and Colonial American History. While Blackbeard and Queen’s Anne’s Revenge enjoy the limelight, the tale Blackbeard’s procurement of the ship and its time before piracy remains obscure. Prior to becoming Blackbeard’s prize, Queen Anne’s Revenge belonged to a French merchant named René Montaudouin, who named it La Concorde. Under his ownership, La Concorde was first a privateering vessel and later a slave-trading ship. On one of La Concorde’s slave-trading voyages, Blackbeard and his crew captured the ship. This paper analyzes primary documents, produced in immediate aftermath of Blackbeard’s capture of La Concorde. Through the examination of accounts from La Concorde’s Captain, statements from members of his crew, and documents from marquis de Feuquières, the Governor of Martinique, I demonstrate that everyone tells a different tale, even about the same event.

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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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 588