Why the hell was a pirate captain hanging out in a Louisiana bayou in the first place?
>>153647979What's a few miles south of said Bayou, Anon?
>>153647979Blackbeard was known for his work up in the Carolinas. Pirates aren't just in the caribbean, but literally anywhere there's water and trade. And what is just south of Louisiana?
>>153647979Ever heard of Jean LaFitte?
>>153648765And his brother Pierre who got there before him
>>153647979What is this from?
>>153650353Scooby Doo on Zombie Island.
>>153647979Why weren't you?
>>153647979Bayou bitches
>>153647979The Mississippi Company had its base of operations set in New Orleans. Through it, the European population in America doubled thanks to a massive influx of French and Germanic settlers. Considering that the MC was a royally-decreed Ponzi scheme that was, in financial terms, early 1700s Twitter (never profitable, massively overvalued, purely a hype bubble), it collapsed and set the stage for the later Revolution. Also consider that France initially treated the MC like Australia.Criminals were ALL over New Orleans, especially after the company went tits up. That a pirate captain felt comfortable there is less than surprising.
>>153647979What I always wondered about is what do they do with the kids when they have Mardi Gras. Do they just let them roam the streets with all the drunks and girls showing their boobs for beads? Boobs are one thing, but what about the criminogenic environment where everyone is drunk and wearing a mask?
>>153647979Louisiana had some pretty famous pirates before good Old Hickory Jackson laid the law down.
>>153650382Thx
>>153647979Pirates were everywhere in the Gulf and Caribbean back then. The swamps must have been a safe haven for Moonscar and his crew to hide out in between raids.
>>153652312Apparently there are family-friendly Mardi Gras parades. God knows what they used to do before those were a thing
>>153647979Can't get at my copy right now but I remember a story in C.B. Colby's Strangely Enough about a pirate whose ship got dumped in swamp by a hurricane or tidal wave and stuck there, roaming lost with no way out. Now people claim to see a ghostly pirate ship there. Of course, Colby seems to've appropriated of just plain made up a lot of stuff.
