Women Pirates of the Caribbean

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Anne Bonny and Mary Read were pirates who sailed the Caribbean in the early 18th century. For both of them, piracy offered a chance at a freedom otherwise disallowed to women.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb learns more about Bonny and Read from the novelist Francesca de Torres - author of Saltblood, which recreates Mary Read's life - and Dr. Rebecca Simon who wrote the first full-scale biography of the two women.

This episode was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Welcome to True Spies.
0:02.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:08.0	Suddenly out of the dark disappear from Lavin.
0:10.0	You'll meet the people who live life under cover.
0:13.5	What do they know?
0:14.6	What are their skills?
0:15.9	And what would you do in their position?
0:18.3	Vengeance felt good.
0:19.8	Seeing these people pay for what they've done felt righteous.
0:24.0	True Spies from Spiescape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, I'm Professor Suzanne Ellipscombe, and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit.
0:40.0	The podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Berlin to the Aztecs, from Holbein to the Huguenose,
0:46.2	from Shakespeare to Summarise. Relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.
0:54.3	Not in other words just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors. Women pirates, yes to answer your question, there were women pirates, and why not?
1:12.1	There were many seafaring women and at base piracy was simply type of
1:17.0	seafaring. Two of the best known female pirates are Anne Bonnie and Reed, who worked in the Caribbean around 1720, the so-called
1:27.0	Golden Age of Piracy. Much of what we know about them comes from a single source. A general history of the robberies and
1:35.6	murders of the most notorious pirates, pirates there spelt with a Y, published in 1724 under
1:42.4	the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson.
1:45.0	It's here we learn of the notorious Blackbeard, Black Bart and Calico Jack.
1:51.0	It's this text that is the source for what we know as the
1:54.7	Pirate Flag, the black and white skull and crust bones known as the Jolly
1:58.6	Roger. And although their trials were already widely published, it's from this book that the names Ann Bonnie and Mary Reed became truly infamous.
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