Blackbeard
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Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, bu
Blackbeard (c. 1736 engraving used to illustrate Johnson's General History)
Edward Teach (Black Beard), Walking the plank, from the "Pirates of the Spanish" series (N19), cigarette card by Allen & Ginter
A contemporary model of Queen Anne's Revenge, displayed in the North Carolina Museum of History.
Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard, 1718 (Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1920)
Anne Bonny
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Anne Bonny was a pirate who served under John Rackham. Amongst the few recorded female pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy, she has become one of the most recognized pirates of the era, as well as the
1724 engraving of Bonny from A General History of the Pyrates
Front cover of A General History of the Pyrates. Starting in the second edition, Anne Bonny's name, alongside Mary Read's, were put in notably larger font than other pirates like Blackbeard or Charles Vane.
1724 woodcut of Rackham from A General History of the Pyrates
1724 engraving of Mary Read from A General History of the Pyrates