Bartholomew Roberts

Now I, Captain X, sail toward the African coasts , to Cap Lopez, offshore of the Gabon: an old skeleton is waiting for me. I'm now wearing a costume of grandeur, red and precious: my new name is Bartholomew Roberts, the most surprising pirate ever born! A cruel but puritain one, dandy, abstemious and chast.

Born in 1682, in the town of Pembroke, in Wales, I was nicknamed Black Bart. My unusual lack of interest in alcool is certainly one of teh cause of my famous success, since in only three years I attacked 400 vessels!

On my last ships The Royal Fortune, The Ranger, The Great Ranger and The Good Fortune, one man on three was black. Black but free, of course. As Blackbeard, John Lewis and Stede Bonnet sometimes did, I gladly accepted creoles and former slaves. For me, a pirate could be black skinned, as my flag and my soul were!