Enlightenment · North America · Politics
1720
Rackham and the Pirate Women
November 16, 1720
Captain Calico Jack Rackham was taken by a Royal Navy sloop off Jamaica. When his crew proved too drunk to fight, two figures kept swinging: Anne Bonny and Mary Read, his female shipmates in men's clothing. At trial, both pleaded their bellies, claiming pregnancy, to escape the gallows. Rackham hanged.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.