Blackbeard, Henry Every, William Kidd, Bartholomew Roberts…They were some of the most infamous pirates in history and they all had one thing in common - we’ve covered them all on Biographics. Okay, they had two things in common - they were also all men. There is no doubt that piracy was a man’s game, but exceptions did exist. In China, Ching Shih became one of the most successful pirates in history, and even here in local waters, we have Anne Bonny who gave up an easy life as the daughter of a rich plantation owner to follow her true calling, raise the black flag and sail the seven seas.
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Further Reading:
Captain Charles Johnson - A General History of the Pyrates
Phillip Thomas Tucker - Anne Bonny The Infamous Female Pirate
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.nps.gov/people/anne-bonny-pirate.htm
https://www.worldhistory.org/Anne_Bonny/
https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-anne-bonny-2136375
https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00john/
https://www.nps.gov/people/anne-bonny-pirate.htm
https://www.worldhistory.org/Calico_Jack/
https://archive.org/details/annebonnyinfamou0000tuck/mode/2up?view=theater
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