[video description: woodes rogers has detained jack rackham, and the two of them are sitting in a carriage. as jack speaks, rogers looks up from his book and later puts it away.
Jack: My father was a tailor. In Leeds. As was his father. And his father’s father. Time was, if a man on the Avondale road asked where he might find the finest clothes in Northern England he was pointed towards the shop of a man named Rakham. Then, the men who sell wool decided they’d prefer not to compete with the men who imported fine cotton, and as the men who sell wool have the ears of the men who make laws… an embargo is enacted, to increase profits, and calico disappears. And my father’s business, that he inherited from his father, and his father’s father, begins to wither and die. And my father suffers the compound shame of financial failure seen through the eyes of his son. He descended into drink. I’d sit beside him, as a boy, at the Sunday service as he shouted at the pastor… at the altar, at anyone who’d listen really, of the injustice of it all. And I’d put his arm over my shoulder as the insults began. Help carry him out of the church, and God, the insults. At his funeral, our neighbours were kind enough to whisper rather than hurl them out loud. So, I set to work, determined to rebuild what had been taken away. I was thirteen years old, but I was determined. Until a man arrived at my door, claiming to hold debts belonging to my father. Debts accumulated as my father drank, debts he claimed that now belonged to me, debts I could not possibly hope to repay. Debts over which this man would have seen me imprisoned in a place where the debts only would have been discharged through hard labour, hard labour with no wages, working at, wait for it… The production of textiles. “You people. Incapable of accepting the world as it is,” says the man to whom the world handed everything. If no Anne, if no rescue, if this is defeat for me, then know this; you and I were neck and neck in this race, right to the end, but Jesus did I make up a lot of ground to catch you. /end video description]
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