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- Title
"Why, By Golly, They're Pirates": Pirate Narratives, College Sports, and African‐American History in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- Authors
Cuddy, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The article considers pirates and piracy in American popular culture, taking into consideration the history of pirates in American imagination. Topics include the naming of athletic teams Pirate by the students of the Hampton Institute and the Hampton Roads, Virginia African-American community in the 1930s, the Golden Age of piracy and the history of pirates in Hampton Roads including Edward Teach (believed to be Blackbeard), Don Benito, and Nicholas de Conception ; the history of the African American school Hampton University; and the Romanisation of pirates in 19th-century literature such as the characters of Long John Silver and Captain Hook in the books of Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barries, respectively.
- Subjects
PIRATES -- History; HISTORY of popular culture; PIRATES in literature; HAMPTON University (Va.); NAMES of sports teams; AFRICAN American history; EDUCATION of African Americans; HAMPTON Roads (Va. : Region)
- Publication
Journal of American Culture, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 3, p242
- ISSN
1542-7331
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jacc.13072