Hated the show but got a kick out of these over-the-top portrayals of Rackham and Bonny.
Posted on 11/16/2020 10:09:45 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1720Nov. 18, 1720, the pirate captain “Calico Jack” Rackham was hanged together with his crew by the British governor of Jamaica.
Nicknamed for his flamboyant clothing, the Bristol-born buccaneer plundered the West Indies during the “Golden Age of Piracy”, having ousted his former captain Charles Vane. Rackham is chiefly remembered to history for two who were not hanged with the rest of his crew: Anne Bonny and Mary Read, rare female pirates who served aboard Rackham’s ship.
Immortalized by Daniel Defoe in his pseudonymous A General History of the Pyrates, Bonny and Read came to piracy by different paths but were both every bit the part and leaders aboard their ship — “very profligate, cursing, and swearing much, and very ready and willing to do any Thing on board.” Bonny, at least, was Rackham’s lover — having eloped with him from her husband.
Upon capture, both women “pleaded their bellies” to escape the gallows, and though it’s unclear whether either really was pregnant, it seems the gambit spared both from execution....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
watch “Black Sails” the best pirate series I ever watched by far.. he is a main character
Thanks.
Is it on Netflix?
Hated the show but got a kick out of these over-the-top portrayals of Rackham and Bonny.
Ultra PC
” “He [Philips] was not executed according to those beautiful legal ceremonies which are pointed out by the laws, in criminal cases. The enormity of his crimes did not entitle him to it. “
A quote of the great Patrick Henry on “pirates” that always astounds today’s libertarians.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0268
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A fascinating letter from James Madison on acts of attainder!
#4. If Rackham’s pistol went off where it is shown, he wouldn’t be “racking” any balls in any game.
A dang fine book to read is called “Jack Tars” by Roy Adkins if you can find it.
There wasn’t any actor in that cast that I would hand a loaded firearm to. In character or out.
Just judging by appearances, of course,
Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 12 March 1815
Not a Madison letter, Apoligies.
Still worth a read on attainment.
I bet he voted for Biden.
LOL Freudian much?
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