March 29, 2021

Anne Bonny, Mary Read and Calico Jack

14 minutes

We'll wrap up the final years of the Golden Age of Piracy with the pirate queens Anne Bonny and Mary Read and their captain Calico Jack Rackam. There's a lot of legend mixed in with the facts but they forever left their mark on pirate lore to this day.

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/if-theres-a-man-among-ye-the-tale-of-pirate-queens-anne-bonny-and-mary-read-45576461/

Means, R. (2017). Jack Rackham (Calico Jack). Jack Rackham (Calico Jack), 1–2.

https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-john-calico-jack-rackham-2136377

Rediker, M. (1993). When women pirates sailed the seas. The Wilson Quarterly, 17(4), 102+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A14522412/GPS?u=mlin_n_bevpubl&sid=GPS&xid=0571076a

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bonny

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/the-true-and-false-stories-of-anne-bonny-pirate-woman-of-the-caribbean/article_e7fc1e2c-101d-11e8-90b7-9fdf20ba62f8.html

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/a-22-year-old-youtuber-may-have-solved-anne-bonny-pirate-mystery-300-years-after/article_78fc0a2e-2914-11eb-a5f5-03b65f4d281a.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/world-history-magazine/article/ahoy-meet-the-real-pirates-caribbean-carolinas

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/grim-life-cursed-real-pirates-of-caribbean

http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/mary-read-anne-bonny/introduction

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/blackbeard-pirate-book-cannon-revenge

https://csphistorical.com/2016/05/08/anne-bonny-and-mary-read-female-pirates-and-maritime-women-page-one/

Intro & outro music: Music: Dutty - Vibe Tracks https://youtu.be/YeHqPHl1114

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By Danielle Barnett