The Age of Pirates | Women of the High Seas | 4
American History Tellers
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4.6 • 19K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
During the Golden Age of Piracy, two female pirates became infamous despite their short careers. Anne Bonny and Mary Read went down as some of the fiercest pirates in popular mythology.. Dr. Rebecca Simon is a historian of early modern piracy and lover of all things pirates. Her latest book is called Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read. She joins host Lindsay Graham to separate fact from fiction about these women of the high seas and other pirate legends.
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| 0:15.9 | Imagine its late October 1720 in the Caribbean Sea, just off the coast of Jamaica. |
| 0:25.0 | You're slumped on the deck of a ship, you're back against the main mast. |
| 0:28.7 | A rope digs tightly into your bound wrists. |
| 0:32.1 | An hour ago you were paddling along in your canoe, mining your own business, but now you're |
| 0:36.8 | a prisoner onboard a pirate ship. |
| 0:39.4 | At a distance you can see some crew members skulking around the foredeck, eyeing you like |
| 0:43.7 | their planning to slit your throat, and one pirate approaches. |
| 0:48.3 | Squinting as you look up into the late day sun, you see that they're wearing a shabby |
| 0:52.4 | pair of trousers in a long jacket. |
| 0:55.2 | But the fit of the jacket seems off. |
| 0:57.6 | Looking more closely, your shock to realize this pirate is a woman. |
| 1:02.2 | Her red hair falls loose around her shoulders as she frowns down at you, pistol in her hand. |
| 1:07.4 | Now, don't bother struggling, there's nowhere to run. |
| 1:10.5 | And you wouldn't make it far in those skirts anyways. |
| 1:13.0 | Please ma'am, don't let these men hurt me. |
| 1:15.6 | It's not them you've got to worry about. |
| 1:17.9 | It's me. |
| 1:19.7 | The woman leans down and yanks you up by the collar of your dress. |
| 1:23.3 | Jack doesn't know how to interrogate a woman. |
| 1:25.8 | He gets all soft. |
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