They pledged to follow me when they thought I was alive. They turned when they thought I was gone. So I will come back from the dead and lay claim to what I am owed. For every man in your camp, there are thousands somewhere in the West Indies living under the same yoke, chained in fields, pressed on ships, sold into indenture. When they see a sitting governor protected by His Majesty’s Navy, deposed by an alliance of pirates and slaves, how many consider joining that fight? How many thousands of men will flock to Nassau, join your ranks, and help you defend it? What does a colonial power do when the men whose toil powers it lay down their shovels, take up swords, and say, “No more”? Bring down Nassau, maybe you bring it all down.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton Characters: Anne Bonny, Max (Black Sails), Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails) Additional Tags: In Which Mr. Noonan Gets What’s Coming To Him, And things change for Max, look I respect the hell out of canon Max and her strength, but she deserved to have a childhood, and not to end up in a brothel at what I’m pretty sure was waaaaaaaaay too young, so while I appreciate canon allowing her to save herself, I’m indulging the need to see her safe and happy whatever way that can happen Series: Part 11 of Graced Summary:
A crash in the kitchen heralds a change in the household – and a shaking up of Nassau politics.
Or, Anne meets Max a little early and Mr. Noonan gets what he’s earned.
Proposition: when one person has to cover a shift that is normally done by two people, they get paid double. This is both to compensate them for working twice as hard, and to remove any temptation for management to think “hey, actually that wasn’t so bad, maybe we should do this more often.”
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Sails Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Miranda Barlow/Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton Characters: Anne Bonny, Max (Black Sails), Thomas Hamilton, Captain Flint (Black Sails), Miranda Barlow, Admiral Hennessey (Black Sails) Additional Tags: In Which Mr. Noonan Gets What’s Coming To Him, And things change for Max, look I respect the hell out of canon Max and her strength, but she deserved to have a childhood, and not to end up in a brothel at what I’m pretty sure was waaaaaaaaay too young, so while I appreciate canon allowing her to save herself, I’m indulging the need to see her safe and happy whatever way that can happen Series: Part 11 of Graced Summary:
A crash in the kitchen heralds a change in the household – and a shaking up of Nassau politics.
Or, Anne meets Max a little early and Mr. Noonan gets what he’s earned.
(Updated, February 2015) The ships used by the East India Company were
initially purchased privately as required. Losses from wear, tear and
wreck took their toll and large ships suitable for the Eastern trade
were soon at a premium, some costing as much as £45 per ton.
Meg's Mumbles 