Samuel Bellamy was born to working class parents in 17th-century England, but he died the richest pirate who ever lived. Known for his good looks, he earned the nickname "Black Sam" because he ...

America’s largest mass pirate burial ground has been discovered and it contains the remains of the crew of Captain Black Sam Bellamy, the revolutionary “Robin Hood of the sea”, researchers ...

In a year, Black Sam Bellamy and his crew raided 54 ships along the U.S. East Coast and the Caribbean. All in all they captured treasure worth $120 million today, according to Forbes magazine.

Polyphemus Productions will present the World Premiere of The Royal Pyrate, a new musical with Book by Chas LiBretto and ...

Experts are planning to perform DNA analysis on a human bone recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck to determine whether it belongs to the infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy. The Whydah ...

Black Sam Bellamy met his fate in Davy Jones’ locker more than three centuries ago, but his namesake hideaway, Black’s Island, is now asking $50 million, according to a press release.

Known simply as Black's Island, the private Florida getaway was named after notorious Black Sam Bellamy — "the Robin Hood of Pirates." Now it's for sale at $50 million.

Black Sam Bellamy's 1717 pirate crew was "a collection of people in which there was likely to be at least some firsthand knowledge of a very wide range of directly democratic institutions," wrote ...

Black Sam Bellamy was one of history’s most successful pirates. His most famous capture was a former slave ship called the Whydah — on which he lost his life during a fateful storm off the ...