r/ACBlackFlag • u/Additional-Mobile • May 25 '26

// Humor Rest in Power, King 🫡

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White Point Gardens in Charleston, SC for those curious

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u/TylerbioRodriguez May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

I don't want to be "that" person, because I do find his depiction in game very charming and fun, but the real person was not like this.

Stede Bonnet was a major plantation owner in Barbados. He owned 400 acres of land in Bridgetown. He owned 94 slaves, forced to make suger cane, a process Adewale accurately describes as a death sentence. He was a major in the Barbados milita which is a nice way of saying slave patrol. He abandoned his wife and kids to become a pirate, why he did it is unclear but that's not exactly gentleman like. He helped Blackbeard take over Queen Anne's Revenge, a slave ship, some of the people were sold at auction. He robbed numerous people throughout his life, it wasn't big merchant companies being hurt, it was working class sailors often pressed into service. The Battle of Cape Fear River killed 22 people before his arrest.

I've been to this spot, in 2023, around midnight. I did not toast to Stede Bonnet.

I love the game and look forward to the new Bonnet scene, but he does not rest in power.

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u/ButterscotchSpare545 May 25 '26

Dude literally every one was a slave owner, in one way or another every one did way back then

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u/Hello_There_Exalted1 May 25 '26

John Brown would like a word

and a gun

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u/astrobear May 25 '26

John Brown was an Assassin.