James Flint

James Flint is the protagonist of the television series Black Sails, a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. He is played by Toby Stephens.

James McGraw, better known as James Flint, is a pirate captain in the Caribbean. He is a disgraced former Royal Navy lieutenant who was dismissed from the service and exiled from England for having a sexual tryst with Lord Thomas Hamilton. He adopted the name "Flint" after a mysterious man who boarded his grandfather's ship while at anchor and then disappeared.