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The Cannon That Never Fired: Paper Wads, Slaves, and Blackbeard's Lost Flagship
The Cannon That Never Fired: Paper Wads, Slaves, and Blackbeard's Lost Flagship
A cannon loaded with folded pages from a published sea voyage sat sealed underwater for nearly three hundred years - one of sixteen paper fragments pulled from a barrel that had never fired. How did a ship built in France, pressed into the transatlantic slave trade, and later seized by Blackbeard end up beached one mile off Beaufort Inlet with a gun primed but never discharged?
In this episode, we trace the wreck’s tangled biography from La Concorde to Queen Anne’s Revenge and the archaeological haul that settled…
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