5/10/2023 0 Comments Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman![]() ![]() ![]() Desperate to make enough money so that she might sail to her mother’s island, and knowing she’ll never find a place for herself in England, she takes a job as a servant in the house of Master Drummond. But when her father dies, Anne’s half brother Henry casts both her and her mother out onto the street, and her mother, too, soon sickens and passes away. In Blackhearts, author Nicole Castroman has mined history for the few facts we know about Blackbeard the man (real name Edward Teach, likely born in Bristol, named his ship Queen Anne’s Revenge) and transformed them into an imaginative YA romance between Edward “Teach” Drummond, heir to an impressive merchant empire, and Anne Bennett, the daughter of a gentleman and a West Indies slave.ĭespite their disparate circumstances, Anne’s parents had a loving relationship and Anne was raised properly in her father’s household, although never presented to the outside world. ![]() What most of us know about Blackbeard is that he was a pirate – pretty much the most famous one ever – and that he had, well…a black beard. ![]()
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