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Aug 23, 2021 · Anne Bonny and Mary Read were also sentenced to be hanged, but both women received a reprieve upon revealing to the court that each was pregnant. The laws at the time forbade the execution of a pregnant woman - the unborn child was innocent, if not the mother - and so Bonny and Read were temporarily allowed to live.
Mary Read and Anne Bonny, though, were sober and stubborn as ever, fighting fiercely to protect their ship and crew. They held off the English for as long as they could, but eventually the ship was overtaken and the crew arrested and swept away to Jamaica, where they were convicted of piracy and sentenced to death.
Yes, there were women pirates! And Bonny (left) and Read were among the most famous. Dressed in men’s clothes, they fought side-by-side with other pirates—many of whom believed the two women were men. In the Caribbean, Ann Bonny and Mary Read served with Captain “Calico” Jack Rackham.
Aug 23, 2021 · Anne Bonny y Mary Read también fueron condenadas a la horca, pero ambas recibieron un indulto al revelar al tribunal que estaban embarazadas. Las leyes de la época prohibían la ejecución de una mujer embarazada (el niño por nacer era inocente, si no la madre), por lo que a Bonny y Read se les permitió vivir temporalmente.
Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Women Pirates in the Early Modern Times . Ryann Schulte . Lindenwood University (Saint Charles, Missouri) The “Golden Age of Piracy” lasted from the middle of the seventeenth century until the middle of the eighteenth century. During this period, massive number of pirates swarmed the
Oct 5, 2021 · Mary Read, a veces escrito «Reade» (nacida c. 1690), fue una famosa pirata de la Edad de oro de la piratería (1690-1720) que estuvo activa en las Bahamas hasta 1720, cuando fue capturada por las autoridades jamaiquinas. Como miembro de la tripulación de piratas del inglés John Rackham, también conocido como «Calico Jack» (f. 1720), Read ...
Aug 15, 2022 · Joining me to discuss Anne Bonny and Mary Read is pirate expert Dr. Rebecca Simon, author of the new book, Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The episode audio is “ Pirate Song ,” written by Robert ...
