Born poor in Devon, England (1689?), "Black" Sam Bellamy crossed the Atlantic toward Massachusetts, chasing his fortune and freedom on the high seas (if you want to get deep into this shit, dude ended up marrying a local "witch" whose own life is steeped in folklore); but what he found at sea wasn’t freedom — it was hierarchy, brutality, and the illusion of order enforced by the lash. So, he flipped the script.

Known as "the Robin Hood of the sea", Bellamy took to piracy and, within a year, captured the Whydah Gally — a heavily armed slave ship, which he turned into something radical: a warship of the dispossessed. His crew wasn’t just a gang of cutthroats — it was a floating republic of outlaws, escaped slaves, and outcasts who found equality under the black flag. Bellamy ran his ship on principle and persuasion - not fear. He banned flogging, gave every man a vote, and split treasure by merit, not rank.  It was even stated in their f-ing bylaws that wounded men would receive compensation - an early form of disability...  which not even the "traditional" navies were offering at that time.  

He openly scorned the wealthy, once declaring, “They rob the poor under the cover of law, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage.”

In April 1717, a violent storm smashed the Whydah off the coast of Cape Cod. Bellamy, along with nearly all of his crew, went down with the ship.  Legend says that on stormy nights, you can hear his wife, Maria Hallett, calling for him off the dunes of Wellfleet, Mass.     

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