#black caesar

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Black Caesar, Italian lobby card (fotobusta). Italian theatrical release 1974

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Wishing a happy birthday to grindhouse film icon Fred Williamson! Here's some art inspired by Black Caesar, Hell up in Harlem, Bucktown, Hammer, The Black Bounty Killer, Black Eye, and From Dusk TIll Dawn to celebrate!

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Fun Fact Friday before Lent?

It's still Black History Month, people love pirates, so Today You Learned about one of Blackbeard's crewmen: Black Caesar!

We don't actually know a lot about his life prior to joining Blackbeard's crew. There are a butt-ton of stories out there, which we can chalk up to creative fiction, claiming he was an African warrior prince that got sold into slavery but then escaped. Afterward, he terrorized the coast of Florida as a pirate.

At some point, Caesar joined up with Blackbeard and served on the Queen Anne's Revenge. And he kept on serving, up until the final battle in which Blackbeard died. One of Blackbeard's crewmen was a black man who was supposed to blow up the ship if the battle was hopeless, though he did not succeed. That being said, as Wikipedia points out, there were other black men reported to be in the crew, though dramatizations make it Caesar, as he was the famous one.

What happened after that is unclear; one source says he was hanged at the trial of Blackbeard's crew, while the actual records say he was acquitted and survived.

What he did after that? Unclear. Maybe he was enslaved again. Or maybe he got to live as a freedman. I don't know.

There's a bit of a mess though. There are some, like the author cited in this article, who declare that Caesar never served under Blackbeard at all, and the one from those stories was perhaps a different guy entirely.

I don't know! It seems, at least, there WAS a black pirate named Caesar, who had some sort of mythology spring up around him, to the point that some people are still looking for the facts.

And also the treasure.

Because it's not a good pirate story if there's not treasure! There are stories that he left oodles of silver out there, and since no one's claimed to find it, there are treasure hunters out there to this day searching for it.

And that makes a pretty cool story, I think.

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Three movie posters with art by George Akimoto.

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Y’all are so stupid and antiblack. Sure we’re talking about a fictional franchise called Pirates of the CARIBBEAN but somehow people think there were no Black pirates. Never mind that Black Caesar, an actual Black man, served under Blackbeard of all people. Never mind that Queen Nanny of the Maroons was going around being a pirate and freeing slaves. Never mind the legend of Jacquotte Delahaye, who even though it is fiction has a literal book coming out about her, exists. Never mind the stories of Black pirates from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean existing. But sure. Let’s get mad at the potential fact that Ayo Edebiri might be leading the new start up of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Cuz Black pirates didn’t exist 🙄.

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movie sub-genres • blaxploitation 

the blaxploitation genre is a subset of exploitation cinema, which is fundamentally comprised of independently produced, low-budget B-movies or grindhouse films. these films typically revolve around lewd, violent or taboo subject matter, and are engineered specifically to attract an audience through sensation and controversy. however, the genre does rank among the first after the race films in the 1940s and 1960s in which black characters and communities are the heroes and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks, villains, or victims of brutality.

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