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Blackbeard, made infamous in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, is said to have walked the streets of Charlotte Amalie when the
island was a legal refuge for pirates, who sold their contraband
freely - wild days when anything and everything was legal and the
town was affectionately known as Beer Hall.
Born Edward Teach in
Bristol, England, Blackbeard was the meanest man the seas have ever
seen - a heavy drinker (rum mixed with gunpowder) and a notorious
lady-killer (he murdered all fourteen of his wives).
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