By weaving these women into the fabric of the narrative, the show suggests that the pirate world, for all its violence, offered a strange kind of meritocracy that the rigid class structures of England and America did not.
Often the comic relief but secretly the smartest man in the room, "Calico" Jack Rackham (Toby Schmitz) bridges the gap between the legend and the reality. He is obsessed with his legacy and the aesthetic of piracy (hence the coat). black sails pirates