Are the history books correct about how Blackbeard met his demise off Ocracoke Island at the hand of British Royal Navy Lt. Robert Maynard in 1718?
North Carolina historian Kevin Duffus will present new history of this fateful event in his talk at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, in the Berkley Barn during Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree.
“No chapter of American history is more horribly mangled and misleading as Blackbeard’s,” Duffus says, and that is what led him to “devote years to researching, analyzing and revising Blackbeard’s story because Blackbeard provides us with an excellent example of how over time the crystal-clear waters of the past become muddied with misinformation.”
You can learn what Duffus found during the two-day festival Oct. 28 and 29 on the Berkley Manor grounds.
Sponsored by the Ocracoke Civic & Business Association, events…
