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Anne Bonny and Mary Read were two women who dressed as men and joined the crew of the pirate John Rackham ("Calico Jack," likely an invented nickname) in the early 18th century. They were captured in the West Indies in 1720 and tried with the rest of the crew.
A trial transcript survived, recording that all were condemned for piracy. The two women "pleaded their bellies" (pregnancy) to escape immediate execution. Read died of typhus in prison and was buried, registered as "Mary Read, Pirate." No reliable account exists of Bonny's fate.
The two have inspired several imagined accounts of their lives, including a play titled "Anne Bonny and Mary Read, late of the Island of Providence, Spinsters and Enemies of All Nations, Are Charged with Piracies, Robberies, and Felonies, or, The Pirate's Wife." Although the exact phrase "Enemies of All Nations" does not appear in the historical transcript, the sentiment is in keeping with the style of the time.
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