Cæsar

It was not uncommon among Pirate crews to find runaway slaves. While some crews saw negro slaves as just another form of profit, other pirates cared little about the color of a man's skin, so long as he was good in a fight. This was the case of one such Negro named, Cæsar. Cæsar was a member of Black Beard's crew. He was one of the few men on board the "Queen Anne's Revenge" that Black Beard truely trusted.

Black Beard had made it clear that he would never be hanged. He had given Cæsar standing orders that in the event his ship were ever to be captured Cæsar were to blow up the ship, with the enemy and Black Beard's on crew still aboard. Such was the case when the Queen Anne's Revenge ship ran across the British Man-O-War commanded by Lt Maynard. Cæsar had been given instructions to drop a lighted match into the ship's magazine and blow the ship up, rather than allow the crew to be hanged. Cæsar attempted to do so, upon Black Beard's death, but was prevented from fulfilling his duty by two of his fellow pirates who turned coward. Cæsar and the others would eventually be hanged like dogs instead of going out in a blaze of suicidal glory.

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