Anne Bonny: podcast appearances and interviews

Anne Bonny was a pirate who served under John Rackham during the Golden Age of Piracy. She is recognized as one of the few recorded female pirates from that era and has become a notable figure in the history of piracy. Much of Bonny's early background remains unknown. According to Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates, she was born in Ireland as the illegitimate daughter of an attorney and his servant. Bonny and her father later moved to Carolina, where she married a sailor. Although this account has gained popularity, there is little evidence to support it.

At an unspecified date, Bonny traveled to the Bahamas and became acquainted with the pirate John Rackham. In August 1720, she joined Rackham's crew alongside Mary Read, another woman pirate. The crew stole the sloop William from Nassau on 22 August 1720 and carried out several attacks on merchant ships in the West Indies. They were captured by former privateer Jonathan Barnet following a brief naval engagement near Jamaica on 22 October 1720. Rackham and all male crew members were tried and executed, but Bonny and Read had their executions stayed because they claimed to be pregnant. Read died in jail around mid-April 1721. Bonny was likely released at an unknown date and lived until 1733, the probable date of her death.