Captain Charles Johnson
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Captain Charles Johnson was the British author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, whose identity remains a mystery. No record exists of a ca
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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
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…Rivington emphasized the fact that the catalogue included stories of "the remarkable ACTIONS and ADVENTURES of the two Female Pyrates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny" A second edition came out within a few months, vastly enlarged and most likely assembled from writings by other authors. German and Dutch translations…
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