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Charles, fl. Johnson, A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time, 1724, Captain Bartho. Roberts with two ships, Viz. the Royal Fortune and Ranger, takes Sail in Whydah Road on the Coast of Guiney, January 11th, 1721/2

The Libraries is currently featuring this image of Bartholomew Roberts, perhaps better known as “Black Bart” in its Galaxy of Images. Welshman Black Bart pirated ships off of the coasts of the Americas and West Africa in the 1700’s. Captain Charles Johnson told of him and other sea rovers in his 1724 book A general history of the pyrates. . .

—Elizabeth Periale

Black Bart can also be found in the online exhibition On the Water . . .

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