4 Powerful Female Pirates That Commanded The Seas

It was a pirate's life for these four powerful women.

was born in the late 1400s around the time the Muslim Kingdom of Granada fell to the Spanish monarchy. Wealthy families, including Sayyida al-Hurra’s, fled to North Africa to escape oppression and forced conversion to Christianity.In North Africa, Sayyida al-Hurra married the leader of a city-state, Tétouan, which had been sacked decades earlier by the Castilians. The power couple worked to restore and re-inhabit the city.

Her pirating by proxy lasted until she agreed to marry the Sultan. She was soon deposed, possibly by one of the Sultan’s sons, and lost control of both her city and pirate armada — much to the relief of her enemies.. Both women were in their early twenties, pregnant and accused of serving “Calico Jack” Rackham, one of the most wanted pirates in the Caribbean.

Rackman and many of his pirate crew received swift death sentences. The court, however, gave the women a stay of execution until after they had their babies. Bonny was Rackman’s lover and pregnant with his child; Read was pregnant with another pirate’s baby.and brought her back to South Carolina in the early 1720s.pirates in history, and her legend lives on. Her name, which roughly translates to “wife of Cheng I” doesn’t reflect the cunning woman who had everyone at her mercy.

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