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A report by Tony Bartelme for The Post and Courier. The trial was over. The witnesses had testified, and things didn’t look good for young Anne Bonny, pirate. It was November 1720, in Jamaica, a time of plunder. From New England to the Caribbean, pirates menaced ships. British authorities were fed up. And Anne Bonny was…
The birthdate of John Rackham is unknown, and while he never attained the notoriety of Blackbeard, he did manage to get his place in history, due to his.
Anne Bonny was an Irish marauder whose brief period of piracy in the 18th century Caribbean enshrined her in legend as one of the few documented female pirates in history.