Hendrick van der Heul
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Hendrick van der Heul
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Hendrick van der Heul was a Dutch privateer who served with Captain William Kidd as his quartermaster. He later purportedly led an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage, though evidence seems lacking, during which he and his crew froze to death. Because of references to him as a "small black man", he has sometimes been identified as African, which would make him the highest-ranking known black pirate. However, his known ancestry is Dutch, and the description may simply mean that he had swart
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_van_der_Heul
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2023-10-22T19:25:36Z
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