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As you have been reading our blog, you have undoubtedly become aware of some of the difficulties involved in identifying objects.
In about 1698, a young woman found herself in jail for stealing, pregnant with her married employer’s illegitimate child and no husband to support her. Despite these grim circumstances, Anne Bonny’s mother was soon released from jail, raising her daughter disguised as a boy and living as the lady of the house with her still married-to-another-woman former employer. The three of them eventually moved from Ireland to the Carolinas, where Anne’s father bought a plantation and started a business of his own.
My name is Brandon Eckert and I am an intern at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in Greenville, North Carolina.
This year marks the centennial of women’s suffrage, and we wanted to participate in DNCR’s She Changed the World Campaign by highlighting female pirates through the ages. Follow along throughout the year as we further explore these lesser-known figures in piracy, and take a look at other notable female contributions to maritime history.
While the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab is known for its treatment of artifacts recovered from Blackbeard’s infamous flagship, conservators sometimes work with objects from other North Car
As part of my Research Fellowship with the “Tale of Two Ships Project”, I traveled to Nantes, France from July 13, 2019 to July 23, 2019 with one of the co-super
The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is dedicated to the continued preservation of North Carolina’s history and culture.
The histories, stories, and legends told about such notorious pirates as Blackbeard can give the impression that the Atlantic world in the early 18th century was solely a world of men.
Knowing the history of Queen Anne’s Revenge, it is unsurprising that archaeologists have found examples of one of the most “piratey” objects there is – langrage.
Prior to coming to the QAR Lab as a research fellow, my experience with artifacts had been exclusively in a museum or repository setting. My knowledge of conservation was more in the context of maintenance where things already preserved, stored, or on display were temporarily pulled (for days or as much as a few months) for treatment in order to retain their condition.