Female Pirates

However, there was a time when they faced troubles. A few heavily armed ships from the Bahamas had been sent to capture them. ("'Calico' Jack Rackham, Rob”) They were forced to leave, and they ended up being captured by a Spanish ship. ("'Calico' Jack Rackham, Rob”) Luckily though, they escaped. ("'Calico' Jack Rackham, Rob”) Unfortunately, a tragedy had happened right after. Their whole crew was attacked by the same ship once again. ("'Calico' Jack Rackham, Rob”) During the attack, Rackham and the rest of the crew stayed at the base of the ship while they left just Anne and Mary fighting. (“Minster”) This time their ship was captured, in November, 1720. ("Captain John Rackham aka 'Calico’, Pirate

Both Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano were held captive at a time in their lives. White men captured Olaudah Equiano, while Mary Rowlandson had Indian captivators. Olaudah’s story tells of the time where he first saw the slave ship he was put on and the journey across great waters to the new world. Rowlandson’s story tells of the apathy of the Indians and her stay with the tribe. It is apparent that the journey across the sea was horrible enough for the ship’s passengers to commit suicide by jumping off of the ship rather than staying on board with the putrid smell of human wastes and lack of ventilation. In a brief paragraph, Equiano wrote of his daily routine before his captivity. He mentioned the relationship he had with his mother, and how he was her favorite child. "I became, of course, the greatest favorite with my mother and was always with her." (72) Olaudah and Mary were alike because Olaudah had a great relationship with his mother while Mary was fond of her own child in her narrative. "About two hours in the night, my sweet babe like a lamb departed this life; I must and could lie down next to my dead babe, side by side all the night after." (2) Neither Olaudah Equiano nor Mary Rowlandson ended their stories with the family members they were most fond of. Equiano’s captivity was the reason why he was stripped from his mother while Rowlandson’s baby died during her

Mary Warren is a young girl, 18 years of age. She lived as a servant to John and Elizabeth Procter. She is one of the many girls that went into the woods to “dance”. After the girls were caught they tried to take the attention of of themselves and put it on others. This caused a big commotion, that in the end caused many people to lose their lives. The girls were saying that people are witches in order to save there own lives. Marry being one of these girls was not completely happy with what she was doing.

The community she once loved turned to her with hatred, but she still consoled them. The sufferings she experienced as a loving wife and a mother, did not discourage her. The uncertainty about her morality vanished because she stood her moral grounds due to her solid faith in God. It is true that Mary was not a member of the Revolutionary army. However, armed with community concern, love for her husband, and strong moral values, Mary Silliman fought and won her own war.

When first analysing the situation that Mary Reibey had gotten herself into, you would initially think about the unfortunate position for such a young girl. Mary’s criminal life and sentencing was caused by an act of horse stealing. Her act of crime was taken action on and two years after her initial sentencing she arrived in Sydney. One of the main factors influencing the negative impact of the convict experience on Mary’s life is the long and strenuous voyage she had to face. Her trip to Sydney aboard the Royal Admiral was one full of harsh treatment, terrible food, filthy and unhygienic conditions and loneliness. In a letter that Mary wrote to her aunt Alice Hope, she spoke about

Mary Hutchinson was by far the most glorious and loving person through-out the novel, and loved by all that knew her, “We all loved one another but somehow every one of us had a special work with Polly. She was so bright and cheery and brave” (Pg.7). She was a young seamstress who lived a simple life, making an honest living and was very close to her loving family. She had been pursued by her co-worker the young Jack Wilson, who fall in love with her (or so she thought), but it was normal for people to be attracted to her beautiful nature. After years of courting they had finally gotten married and had children of their own, although the second would not be born until the “father” I say vaguely had left the country. This once highly sought after woman would now be left to care for two young children while her husband moved countries to find work (not to mention flee embarrassment). This was the moment that would change her life for the worst, only she hadn’t known it yet.

Captain Ahab Had a Wife, by Lisa Norling, is a collection of ideas and information regarding women in the whaling industry in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. Norling writes how women were affected by the whaling industry, they depended on society for stability, and often conformed to society 's rules. The book is written to portray women during this time as resilient and capable of living in a man driven world. By recovering the stories of real maritime women, it enables to push beyond the stereotypical characteristics and restore important dimensions of the social history of seafaring (Norling 2). Captain Ahab Had a Wife examines the gender dynamics in New England which dramatically illustrates the necessity, pervasiveness, and thus

Anne Bonny was a Irish american women who became a pirate. she was born on March 8, 1698 , the she died April 25,1782 charles towne. She was mostly known for her robberies and her murders. There was also a book written about her in 1724, called A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates.

Mary Rowlandson was held captive by the Wampanoag peoples. In this narrative she gives details on what happened to her while she was a prisoner for weeks. Mary was captured along with her three children, two of which she was separated from and the other one died in Mary’s arms on the ninth day. She then went and saw her ten year old, who, upon seeing her mother, broke down in tears resulting in them not being able to have much further contact. Her captors made her march along for miles until they reach a river that they crossed on canoes. Mary stays there a while sewing and knitting for some of the Native peoples living there. She then is given a knife in which she promptly returns to her master, who lets her go see her son. She gets lost in

Putting myself in the the position of a sailor back in that time I can see why many were attracted to the life of a pirate. The life of a sea faring man during the early 18th century was a grueling way of work. Wages were low, decease was rampant, ships were cramped, and discipline from officers was brutal, sometime murderous. The pirate life symbolized freedom and liberty and a brotherhood that stood for being “ one for

The Mariner’s lifelong penance is to relay his story and message throughout the lands to the various individuals he holds a calling towards. The Mariner can only relieve his frequents bouts of extreme agony and guilt from his past by narrating his story and lesson to others, bidding them not to make the same mistake he did. Initially, the listener is reluctant to hear the Mariner’s tale, eager to get to the wedding that is about to begin. However, the listener is somehow drawn to the Mariner and yields to his tale. He becomes enchanted, and by the tale’s end, the listener is left, shocked, speechless, and in awe. He gains a new perspective of the world, and the poem ends with the words, “He [the listener] went like one that hath been stunned / And is of sense forlorn; / A sadder and a wiser man, / He rose the morrow morn.”

Mary Ann Cotton was born October 31 1832 and died on March 24 1873. She was England’s first female murderer as her murders reached the front cover of every single news stand in Britain. She is best known for killing three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies. Overall she killed and poisoned 21 people in total ,including eleven of her thirteen children. Moreover, she grew up in the City of Sunderland, Endlnad. At the age of 8 her parents moved the entire family to the County Durham village of Murton. While in school, she was extremely lonely and did not make any friends. Right after the move, her father fell to his death down a mine shaft. After her father’s death, her mother remarried to George Stott. Mary found it difficult to get along with him and at the age of 16 she eventually moved out to become a nurse.After three years studying to become a nurse, Mary’s dreams fell apart as she returned home to live with her mother and eventually became a dressmaker.

While living with the Captain and his wife, Mary faced a lot of physical abuse.

When the word pirate is mentioned, many people think of ship carrying men across the seas as they pillage other ships. While this is true to some extent there was much more to the lives of the men that were known as pirates. Pirates were mostly men from French, English or Dutch heritage, and were privateers or merchants. Many of these men were sanctioned by their government. By the Spanish they were call piratas or unsanctioned sea-raiders, and would have a heavy influence of trade in the Caribbean and on the Spanish Empire.

sea with a sailor named Frank. Yet at the end of the story, as she is about to leave, she changes