For those that might not know, the founder of Chicago was actually a black man. Surprisingly he isn't whitewashed.
The greatest pirate there ever lived, a man named Bartholomew Roberts, aka black Bart Roberts was a black man as well, and universally considered the greatest that ever lived in the Golden age of piracy. Unfortunately he was white washed.
There's an old biographical publication from back in the early 1700s that talks about various big-name pirates and their lives and campaigns and things and in it Bartholomew has a chapter where it talks about him being a tall black man.
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