Pirate Research

So I came back from a short hiatus with the "flu" and we dove right into researching five main writers of pirate information on academic search premier. To find legitimate pieces of work to use proved to be more complicated that I assumed. Certain writers only have reviews written about their work rather than their work itself so some of the citations would have to be looked up in a library of some sort or the book bought online. It was interesting to find in the reviews that what the authors being written about write mainly about was in the review like what the author specialized in. Some writers looked at the more economic views for pirates while some looked at hierarchy.
Then in groups when we decided on topics to look further into we kind of all got chastized because the topics were not of specific incidents, people or dates therefore making the topics way too broad but it was good to know that for the upcoming proposal.
For the pirate proposals coming up I wanted to remember "specific incidents, people or dates" from a broad topic but I am worried that my topic could be falling into two categories rather than one. Black pirates, their actual popularity and why they are not portrayed in movies or books is the broader idea but I am looking specifically looking into Blackbeard and his heavily black crew as a specific incident. I am worried about this getting out of hand but we will have to wait and see.