Vintage Pirate Blackbeard Flag

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Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard (1680-1718), terrorized the seas and was a notorious pirate who was feared by his enemies. Explain to students how pirates used flags like the Jolly Roger to convey their message of death and destruction to others on the sea.

Pirate Blackbeard Flag: The Banner of a Legendary Buccaneer

While most pirates favored the skull and crossed bones symbol on their flags, Blackbeard was said to have had a different design that displayed a horned skeleton holding an hourglass in one hand and a spear piercing a bleeding heart with three drops of blood in the other. While this popular image of Blackbeard’s pirate flag is associated with the infamous pirate, its origins are not clear and have no contemporary links to the historical record.

Skulls and skeletons are common memento mori symbols that depict everyone’s eventual death. The use of this motif on a pirate flag intimated that time to surrender was running out for anyone who encountered the ship. Similar skull and crossbones motifs can also be seen on land, on countless gravestones in cemeteries across Europe and America. While these memento mori symbols may seem morbid and depressing, they serve to remind people of their own mortality.

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