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Upon discovering the affair, James Bonny attempted to have Anne convicted of adultery. However, she escaped with Rackham, stealing a sloop and nullifying his pardon. Soon after, Governor Rogers declared John Rackham and his crew pirates, after which the pirate hunter Jonathan Barnet began his search for them.

He was then sent to Spanish Town, Jamaica, where he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang. Twitter Facebook Instagram Youtube. During his stay in Nassau, Rackham became restless and found trouble by having a affair with Anne Bony, wife of the sailor James Bonny who was also under employment by the Governor Rogers's office. After the discovery of the affair, furious James Bonny pleaded to the governor to punish his wife with flogging , but John Rackham intervened offering money to him to divorce her legally.

With no peaceful solution found, Rackham and Anne Bonny decided to void his Royal Pardon by stealing sloop from the harbor and fleeing once again to the life of piracy. Anne Bonny became openly part of the pirate crew, by hidden among the pirate crew members was also Mary Read , another female pirate who at first hid her gender from other pirates by disguising as a man.

Captain Jack and his lover Anne Bonny. Back to the sea again, Captain Calico Jack and his crew started their usual runs against merchants across the Caribbean. In addition to targeting only merchants, Calico Jack also attacked few smaller pirate vessels, not with a goal of thinning out the competition, but to offer them ability to join his crew. With ever expanding force of pirates under his command, Calico Jack in just two months managed to cause chaos in the Caribbean.

By late , Bahamas' Governor Woodes Rogers issued the official proclamation that marked Rackham and his entire crew as pirates. Pirate hunter Jonathan Barnet immediate sprang into action, sailing toward Jamaica where reports claimed that Rackham has recently captured several small fishing vessels. He managed to surprise pirates who were at that time partying and drinking after a successful round of plundering.

Reports say that in the melee fight that ensued, the pirate crew was led by none other by Mary Read and Anne Bonny. However, this struggle was short-lived, eventually leading to the capture of entire John Rackham crew.

Captain Jonathan Barnet transported them all to the Spanish Town, Jamaica, where all of them were tried for piracy and sentenced to the death by hanging. He was hanged, gibbeted, and put on display on a small islet today know as Rackham's Cay near the entrance of the harbor of Port Royal to serve as an example to all Pirates on the Caribbean waters.

Captain Charles Johnson recorded in his book "A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates" a very famous comment that Anne Bonny said about Rackham: "If he had fought like a Man, he need not have been hang'd like a Dog".

As for the remainder of his crew, all male members were hanged to death, while two females Anne Bonny and Mary Reid were held in prison for several weeks until their claims of pregnancy could be verified. Her name was Mary Read. Soon, the second recovery ships caught up with Calico Jack and his crew. In the ensuing fight, the pirate ship was severely damaged and Calico Jack and his crew were forced to surrender.

Their bodies were chained up and hung at various spots on the island to discourage other would-be pirates. COM This activity can be copied directly into your Google Classroom, where you can use it for practice, as an assessment, or, to collect data.

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