The Cynical Historian

Anne Bonny of the Indies | Based on a True Story (2021x27)

Air date: Jul 14, 2021

Anne of the Indies at first blush seems to be related to Anne Bonny, but ultimately is not. It’s just a fictitious pirate romp, but at least I can go a little deeper into Bonny’s story. The golden age of piracy is ripe for this kind of myth and romanticism. ------------------------------------------------------------ Connected videos: periodization: https://youtu.be/9vQIxAK-kXM Captain Phillips: https://youtu.be/yuSWR1_Eeco social banditry: https://youtu.be/VW_fEdrvmOI Loving v. Virginia: https://youtu.be/PgRzTmiT0r0 ------------------------------------------------------------ References: Newspaper articles on John (Jack) Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read: https://jillianmolenaar.home.blog/2019/02/07/the-documentary-record/ Before Tyler Rodriguez gets her publication on Bonny together, here is a link to a video that she wrote about it, though was improperly credited: https://youtu.be/KOiUgXyk0Fs Jay Eric Dolin, _Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates_ (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2018). https://amzn.to/36VgUtj Charles Johnson, _A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, and also their Policies, Discipline, and Government: From their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, in 1717, to the Present Year 1724,_ ed. Manuel Schonhorn (1724; Mineola, N.York: Dover Publications, 1999). https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40580/40580-h/40580-h.htm Angus Konstam, _The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers_ (Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019). https://amzn.to/2JMwdfb Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, _The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic_ (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2000). https://amzn.to/2JKq8tN Marcus Rediker, _Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailor, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail_ (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2014). https://amzn.to/2OasYf