"Black Caesar" Sweatshirt

A name that survived the records that didn't.

There was, in November 1718, a Black man named Caesar aboard Blackbeard's sloop Adventure when the Royal Navy boarded it at Ocracoke. The elaborate legend that grew around him — African chieftain, Florida Keys pirate base — is mostly invention. But the larger truth is real: somewhere between a quarter and a third of Golden Age pirates were Black, many of them men who had escaped slavery and found, on a pirate deck, the closest thing the Atlantic world offered to equal footing. Caesar belongs to that bigger story.

• 50/50 cotton-poly, pre-shrunk, classic crewneck fit
• Double-needle stitched collar, shoulders, armholes, cuffs, and hem
• Air-jet spun yarn — soft hand-feel, reduced pilling
• Machine wash cold, tumble dry low
• Sizes S–5XL · runs true to size