Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate
The story of the most famous female pirate in history provides a remarkable personal odyssey from a time when women were almost powerless and at the lowest level of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic. This new biographical work fills considerable gaps in Anne Bonny’s life beyond her mythology to rescue an actual person for posterity.

After turning her back on everything she knew growing up in South Carolina to find a sense of personal freedom, Anne Bonny sailed the Caribbean’s pristine waters during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century. Few accurate records exist about these law-breakers, whose lifestyles called for hanging. Fortunately, Anne Bonny was a notable exception to the rule, as she was caught off the Jamaican coast and tried by a court of law, whose records have fortunately survived.

So, who was the real Anne Bonny? A heartless prostitute, a bloodthirsty psychopathic, or a compassionate woman of faith and courage? Such a fundamental question has not been adequately answered by historians for 300 years. It is now time to take a fresh look at the life of Anne Bonny to present a corrective view into not only her story but also the seldom explored, but incredibly rich, field of women’s history.

The Anne Bonny mythology is today popularly told in Starz channel’s Black Sails and the video game Assassin's Creed.

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Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate
The story of the most famous female pirate in history provides a remarkable personal odyssey from a time when women were almost powerless and at the lowest level of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic. This new biographical work fills considerable gaps in Anne Bonny’s life beyond her mythology to rescue an actual person for posterity.

After turning her back on everything she knew growing up in South Carolina to find a sense of personal freedom, Anne Bonny sailed the Caribbean’s pristine waters during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century. Few accurate records exist about these law-breakers, whose lifestyles called for hanging. Fortunately, Anne Bonny was a notable exception to the rule, as she was caught off the Jamaican coast and tried by a court of law, whose records have fortunately survived.

So, who was the real Anne Bonny? A heartless prostitute, a bloodthirsty psychopathic, or a compassionate woman of faith and courage? Such a fundamental question has not been adequately answered by historians for 300 years. It is now time to take a fresh look at the life of Anne Bonny to present a corrective view into not only her story but also the seldom explored, but incredibly rich, field of women’s history.

The Anne Bonny mythology is today popularly told in Starz channel’s Black Sails and the video game Assassin's Creed.

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Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate

Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate

by Phillip Thomas Tucker
Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate
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Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate

Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate

by Phillip Thomas Tucker

Overview

The story of the most famous female pirate in history provides a remarkable personal odyssey from a time when women were almost powerless and at the lowest level of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic. This new biographical work fills considerable gaps in Anne Bonny’s life beyond her mythology to rescue an actual person for posterity.

After turning her back on everything she knew growing up in South Carolina to find a sense of personal freedom, Anne Bonny sailed the Caribbean’s pristine waters during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century. Few accurate records exist about these law-breakers, whose lifestyles called for hanging. Fortunately, Anne Bonny was a notable exception to the rule, as she was caught off the Jamaican coast and tried by a court of law, whose records have fortunately survived.

So, who was the real Anne Bonny? A heartless prostitute, a bloodthirsty psychopathic, or a compassionate woman of faith and courage? Such a fundamental question has not been adequately answered by historians for 300 years. It is now time to take a fresh look at the life of Anne Bonny to present a corrective view into not only her story but also the seldom explored, but incredibly rich, field of women’s history.

The Anne Bonny mythology is today popularly told in Starz channel’s Black Sails and the video game Assassin's Creed.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781627310451
Publisher: Feral House
Publication date: 08/29/2017
Pages: 220
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D., has won widespread national acclaim and recognition as an award-winning American historian and author. Fundamentally a corrective scholar of outdated and traditional history, he has written ground-breaking books about some of the most iconic moments of American history.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter I The Scandal that Shocked Kinsale, Ireland, 1698-1708 1

Chapter II The New World and Charles Town, South Carolina, 1708-1718 19

Chapter III An Exciting New Life in the Caribbean, 1718 39

Chapter IV A Republic of Freedom-Loving Pirates 49

Chapter V Sailing the Caribbean's Blue Waters, 1719 81

Chapter VI Stealing the William, 1720 133

Chapter VII One Final Cruise and Anne's Last Days of Innocence, 1720 149

Chapter VIII Trial for Her Life, 1720 185

Chapter IX Coming Full Circle, Return to America, 1721 215

Chapter X Transformations and an Enduring Legacy, 1721-1782 225

Conclusion 231

End Notes 235

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