The sweet trade

Description:

While in Nassau with hopes of a governor's pardon that will enable him to leave his trade, devious pirate Calico Jack Rackham instead recruits two new members of his crew: Anne Bonny, a bored Southern Belle, and Mary Read, an Englishwoman who has lived her life as a merchant sailor disguised as a man.

subjects: Women pirates,  Female friendship,  Fiction,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Anne Bonny (b. 1700),  Mary Read (d. 1720?)

Places: Nassau (Bahamas)