Backlash over Burgh Island statue honouring female pirates
Some locals have registered their outrage over the proposals, questioning why a monument to ‘two criminals guilty of cruelty and thievery’ should be installed
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Objections have been raised against plans for a statue of two real-life women Pirates Of The Caribbean overs fears it would glamorise the ‘violent criminals.
Plans were unveiled for an art installation on Burgh Island which represents two of Britain’s forgotten pirates, Anny Bonny and Mary Read.
The pair were among the most notorious pirates as they wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean during the golden age of piracy in the early 1700s.
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Firmly fixated upon Anne Bonny’s daring attempt to rescue Captain Jack Rackham from his imprisonment on Fort Nassau, Stephanie Phillips’ narrative for issue four of A Man Among Ye arguably contains it all, from fast-paced swordplay and ear-shattering explosions through to shrewd scheming and villainous treachery. Indeed, apart from this twenty-page periodical’s rather frustrating conclusion, which sees the injured female pirate and her unconventional crew fleeing from the Bahamas-based fortification empty-handed, this comic book is virtually flawless, and doubtless will have many within its audience clamouring for the Phillips to pen some more adventures about the notorious buccaneer sooner rather than later.
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