Please work on the accent in black sails
I hate to be negative, and also I never pick up on stuff like accents. But hers is really bad in Black Sails. I think it's suppose to be a Creole accent of some sort, but it just sounds bad.
She's from Canada, but I doubt she's been around too many French speakers. Or they must do it differently up there.
Can't put my finger on it. Maybe she needs to be more 'throaty' or that she uses too little variance in her phonetics. But it sounds so bad I fast-forward most of her scenes.
PS. On a separate note, a black person most likely would have a bit of an African accent back then as they would have been from, or brought up around Africans.