Samuel Bellamy
aka "Black Sam" Bellamy sailed "the Whydah Gally" when she sank off Cape Cod in a storm. Its gold was retrieved in modern times, being the only known pirate ship salvaged.
Whydah is the name of a trading post in Africa at the time, near ivory coast. Gally is spelled galley today.
The following text is excerpted from Appendix C of Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone, which is a Free text.
- Daniel Defoe, writing under the pen name Captain Charles Johnson1, wrote what became the first standard historical text on pirates, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. According to Patrick Pringle's Jolly Roger, pirate recruitment was most effective among the unemployed, escaped bondsmen, and transported criminals. The high seas made for an instantaneous levelling of class inequalities. Defoe relates that a pirate named
