- "I was just wondering, why is it that we are no longer pointed in the direction of North Carolina. As you said we would be?"
- ―Billy Turner to Jack Sparrow
North Carolina was a territory in the Southeastern region of North America. It was bordered by South Carolina to the south, Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and makes up the Carolinas region of the East Coast. Raleigh was a settlement and town in North Carolina. After a colony was established in the 1600s, the colony was eventually divided and North Carolina was established as a colony of the British Empire by the 1700s. Many coastal towns of North Carolina were popular pirate hideouts.
History[]
- "New Orleans! Why New Orleans? What happened to North Carolina?"
- ―Billy Turner to Jack Sparrow
Captain Edward Teach's career as a pirate began when he fell in with Ben Hornigold, quite a pirate in his own right, who gave young Teach command of a sloop. As his beard grew longer, thicker, and blacker, so did his reputation. And from the greasy mass that hung to his chest, he assumed the cognomen: Blackbeard. For months he terrorized the Virginias and Carolinas, blockading the harbor at Charleston for weeks at a time.[2]
After a few months of sailing as a sailor and pirate aboard the Fleur de la Mort, Billy Turner was awarded a portion of the Fleur's treasure for saving the ship from the vicious Captain David Donovan and his sea beast. Billy used that money to buy a quaint little cottage on the shores of North Carolina for his Uncle Seamus and Aunt Erin, where they both settled with Billy's dog, Crumbs.[4] At some point before the quest for the Shadow Gold, a former pirate Billy Turner settled in North Carolina with his wife and child, but he was soon tricked into joining the crew of the Black Pearl under Captain Jack Sparrow.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
- North Carolina was indirectly mentioned as the "Carolinas" in 1974 souvenir book Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Story of the Robust Adventure in Disneyland and Walt Disney World.[2] In 2009, North Carolina first appeared and was identified by name in the Rob Kidd book Jack Sparrow: The Tale of Billy Turner and Other Stories.[1]
Appearances[]
- Jack Sparrow: The Tale of Billy Turner and Other Stories (First appearance) (First identified as North Carolina)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean (Mentioned only)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising in the East (Mentioned only)
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Day of the Shadow (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Story of the Robust Adventure in Disneyland and Walt Disney World (Indirect mention only)
External links[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jack Sparrow: The Tale of Billy Turner and Other Stories
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Story of the Robust Adventure in Disneyland and Walt Disney World, p. 13
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean, p. 23
- ↑ Jack Sparrow: The Tale of Billy Turner and Other Stories, pp. 156-159
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