The Penguin Book of Pirates by Unknown
Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2024-04-29T00:00:00+00:00
EDINBURGH, Printed by Robert Brown in Forresterâs-Wynd. 1721.
ANNE BONNY AND MARY READE
Port Royal, Jamaica
1720â21
Every ship had boys on board, be it a Royal Navy ship or even a pirate ship, as in the case of the unfortunate boy whose fibula was found in the wreck of the Whydah. But in these two famous instances, the boys on board âCalicoâ Jack Rackhamâs pirate ship werenât boys at all. Anne Bonny and Mary Reade, however improbably, both ended up disguised as men in the same pirate crew, each wending a different path toward a life of piracy. Both wound up being put on trial, and both âpleaded their bellies,â as pregnant women would not, as a rule, be taken to the place of execution until after they had been delivered.
Jack Rackham, who was Anne Bonnyâs lover, came into his piratical career after succeeding Charles Vane on the Ranger. Like many of the pirates in this account he accepted the Kingâs Pardon, and attempted to make a life for himself in Nassau. There he met Anne Bonny, who joined him when he resumed his life as a sea robber. On that cruise Mary Reade also shipped, in disguise. Their careers were short-lived, however; Calico Jack was caught in 1720, tried in Port Royal, sentenced to death by hanging, and his body was then gibbeted (hung in chains) at the entrance to Port Royal on a small rocky island now known as Rackhamâs Cay.
But enough about Calico Jack. Letâs get to the women who actually made him worth talking about.
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