Talia Kostya
Vinduska
World History Honors
February 8th, 2023
Tale of Anne Bonny
Anne Bonny is known today as the legendary Caribbean pirate, that was immensely cocky and spontaneous. As she sailed across the Caribbean with a stolen ship with her latest boyfriend. Encountering her partner in crime, Mary Read, while plundering sloops in her time as a pirate. Although she is legendary, many things about her are thought to only be legends, and are still undetermined to this day. Leaving the safety of her old life, she headed straight for the Bahamas which was the catalyst for Anne meeting her best friend and being captured only after two years of being on the open waters. Anne Bonny is known for being a formidable Irish marauder except that
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Anne soon became ennui with the relationship between her and James. This led her to be entangled with a new man, John Rackham, also known as ‘Calico Jack’. Jack coerced James into divorcing Anne but it was inconsequential, Anne Bonny and Calico Jack covertly departed from the Bahamas (Pallardy, 3&4). As they sailed off in a ship called The William, which Jack had stolen from the harbor of New Providence. This was Anne Bonny’s first encounter participating in what is called ‘The Golden Age of Piracy’ (Cartwright, …show more content…
The purpose of the alias was to protect Anne and the other crew from being captured due to the warrant for arrest from the Governor of the Bahamas, Woode Rogers (Cartwright, 4). While women were exceptionally uncommon to have on board as a part of the crew due to the men only wanting sexual favors from them. That was the only reason Jack’s crew let her and later Mary Read travel with them (Cartwright, 5). During the looting of a ship, a woman named Mary Read was disguised as a man, and was then assimilated into the crew (Anne Bonny and Female Pirates, 5). Anne later found out about Mary’s gender and the two became best friends. Allegedly, both women would impersonate men as they fought side by side with pistols, as they took down other privateers along the Caribbean coasts (Cartwright, 6). Over the span of 2 years, the two made a huge reputation for themselves in and around the Caribbean, causing the Governor of the Bahamas to confront it (Pallardy