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Fear continues after Blackbeard
Blackbeard was a lingering presence even after his death. In 1724, Virginia Governor Alexander Spottswood wrote to authorities in England, telling them he was too fearful to sail the seas and return home to London. A portion of Spottswood's letter to the Board of Trade reads:
"You Lordships will easily conceive my Meaning when you reflect on the Vigorous part I've acted to suppress Pirates; and if those barbarous Wretches can be moved to cut off the Nose & Ears of a Master for but correcting his own Sailors, what inhuman treatment must I expect, should I fall within their power, who have been markt as the principle object of their vengeance, for cutting off their arch Pirate Thatch, with all his grand Designs, & making so many of their Fraternity to swing in the open air of Virginia."
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