Caribbean Women Pirates

Ahoy! Where most people get their information about pirates is from Pirates of a Carribean. What those people do not know is that there is more to Elizabeth Swann, the woman pirate. Women were more than involved in piracy. There were a couple world know women pirates like Anne Bonney and Mary Read. They had a crew to control and dressed up like men to disguise the fact that they were women. Women piracy is still disguised since the seventeen hundreds until now. To start, women ruin the mojo. Many men at the time considered women to be bad luck to know men’s personal and business information. The worst, bad luck was when a women would be present onboard a ship. If found, women would have been blamed for storms, damage to the ship, loss of food,

Women still contributed to the ways of the pirates. Raiding ships: coming close to an enemy or random ship, taking control, and stealing all of their possessions is what normal pirates typically take part of. If normal pirates involved themselves in raiding ship, then the women were involved too. The women involved in the Royal Navy in the eighteenth century would work mostly as book keepers, record holders of possession over books. Another job that the women would be expected to do is the laundry. Laundresses were women who were employed to lauder clothes and linens. There was not much record on any other jobs for women on a ship. That is why the well know women pirates moved on to bigger and better

Anne Bonny was born in County Rock, Ireland. She was the illegitimate daughter of William Cormac and his housemaid. William grew so fond of Anne after she was born that made it so that Anne could live with him, but dressed her as a boy as to avoid scandal. When people figured out Anne’s true gender and who her parents were, the whole family moved to America in the 1600’s, living on a plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. Mary, Anne’s mother, died when Anne was a teen, which caused Anne to become fierce and rebellious. As such, Anne murdered one of her servants with a knife, and beat a suitor half to death, who had tried to rape her. Mary excelled at living as a man. Around age thirteen, she served as a “powder monkey” on a British man-of-war during the War of the Grand Alliance. Next she joined the Army of Flanders, serving in both the infantry and cavalry. She fell in love with her bunkmate and divulged her secret to him. Initially, the soldier suggested that Mary become his mistress, but Mary said that she was a reserved and proper lady. After informing her entire regiment that she was a woman, she quit the army and married the solider, who died shortly before the turn of the eighteenth century. Mary resumed her life as a man and sailed for the West Indies on a Dutch ship, which was soon captured by English pirates. The crew, believing Mary to be a fellow Englishman,