<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In an era that condoned smuggling and lawbreaking the transition from privateer to pirate was easy</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">With astonishing tenacity, the people of the rich river-mouth region of the Mississippi have remained what and where they are through two and a half centuries</span> </p>
<p>Artifacts pulled from the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship <i>Queen Anne's Revenge</i> offer a glimpse into the bloody decades of the early 18th century, when pirates ruled the Carolina coast.</p>
