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Captain Bartholomew Roberts the pirate and discipline
A portrait of Captain Bartholomew Roberts, famed pirate known as Black Bart, detailing his Sabbatarian, temperate, and highly regulated shipboard regime. He enforced Sunday rest, tea drinking, banned gambling and alcohol aboard, and mandated resolve of disputes on land.
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