A bottle of rum and a license to steal – little-known facts about pirates

[post_page_title]Making her exit[/post_page_title]She married her step-son to consolidate power, and applied masterful intrigue to keep it. She instructed her subordinates to treat female captives fairly. If a pirate wanted to marry a captive, he had to marry her and remain faithful her. After years of raiding, she managed to gain a pardon for herself and her sailors, making the pirate queen one of the only pirate captains to retire on her own terms. She returned to shore, and became a madame with her own gambling house founded by her pirate wealth.

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