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I've just fallen headfirst into Black Sails and mainlined all four seasons in a few weeks, so this couldn't be more perfectly timed for me!

One excellent thing about Black Sails is how heavily the writers draw from the thinking and research of renowned maritime historian Marcus Rediker

I'd be curious to know if the showrunners/writers have specifically mentioned Rediker anywhere?

I got hooked by the show and went digging through my to-read pile for Rediker and Linebaugh's The Many-Headed Hydra (which had been languishing there, just waiting for the moment when I would urgently need to read something featuring pirate crews as a form of proto-democratic resistance to the maritime state), because yeah, the connections seem obvious and the showrunners clearly did their research.

But I don't know if they've ever publicly namechecked specific authors/books (and I don't know who the other major historians in this area would be), and I'd be really fascinated to know.