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Or alternatively, Blackbeard’s pirates liked to wad their cannon with pages from whatever was available at the time, including books.
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Sounds like this book was less a “novel” than the closest thing available to an early 18th-Century Lonely Planet guidebook. Something to read not just for entertainment but to have an idea of what one might expect to encounter on a similar voyage.
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However, more research will discover they only used these novels to conceal the book of lewd etchings they were actually looking at.
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“Yarrr, look at the corsetry on that one! Them whalebone stays are givin’ me a whale of a bone m’self! Arf arf arf.”
-Some Pirate, Probably
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Woodes Rogers was also famous as the Governor of the Bahamas, who hunted Blackbeard and his former captain Charles Vane. It’s likely that Teach did a lot of reading up on Rogers in order to learn as much as he could about his adversary.
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Oh no, they had some pretty lewd and explicit stuff in the “olden” days out there. I’d go find some to post, but I am at work.
Hmm - I think the Braum Stoker’s Dracula (the movie) showed some of what was available.
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Wait a minute… The US state of North Carolina has a Department of Natural and Cultural Resources?
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Yes, it sure does, and it is pretty badass. I Know A Guy. 
Literally not a novel.
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