Educational Resources on Blackbeard | Queen Anne's Revenge Project

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To help educators integrate information about the project into their curricula, we collected references that relate to the transatlantic slave trade, pirates, Blackbeard, La Concorde, Queen Anne's Revenge and underwater archaeology below.

Our educational initiatives have previously included interactive webcasts that connect students and educators with archaeologists from the QAR lab.

1,265

African men, women, and children whose lives were impacted by the three slaving voyages of La Concorde. 147 captive Africans did not survive the journey.

18

Months Blackbeard spent as an active pirate. He likely gained experience as a British privateer prior to turning to piracy.

6

Months Blackbeard sailed Queen Anne's Revenge as his flagship. By comparison, the ship sailed as La Concorde for seven years.

Take Your Class to Our Lab

Bring your class to visit the QAR Lab for free! While on your visit, you and your students can view pieces of a real shipwreck including a 12-foot anchor and parts of the hull structure itself, explore how archaeologists and conservators reveal mysteries of the sea through x-ray technology, and much more.

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Online Resources

Artifact Gallery

Show your students images of artifacts from the wreck, organized by category.

Lecture Series

Watch presentations on a variety of subjects by experts in North Carolina archaeology.

Bits of History

Subscribe to North Carolina Museum of History's "Bits of History" podcast.

The Slave Trade

Explore a comprehensive database on the merchants and ships involved in the slave trade.

Graveyard of the Atlantic

Learn about why an unusually large number of shipwrecks can be found off the Carolina coast.

NCArchaeology@Home

Introduce your students to archaeology with these educational exercises.

Pirates, Shipwrecks, Etc.

Browse historical images related to piracy and shipwrecks in North Carolina.

Pirate History

Read more about Blackbeard and his contemporaries in this early account of infamous pirates.

A Biography of Blackbeard

Few figures from North Carolina history inspire as vivid an image in the popular imagination as Blackbeard. Check out an overview of his life story on NCpedia, originally published in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, to begin to separate fact from fiction.