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Paper Scraps Recovered From Blackbeard's Cannon Reveal What Pirates Were Reading

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Paper Scraps Recovered From Blackbeard's Cannon Reveal What Pirates Were Reading

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I had Blackbeard pegged as a 'Little House' guy.

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barefootgreg 7 years ago

Well, there is the chance their interest in such literature was for wadding purposes only.

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- glen 7 years ago
  
  An excellent point! We don't know how reluctantly the book was shredded and wadded into the cannon.
  
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