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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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28 November 1720
At a trial in
Spanish Town, Jamaica
,
Anne Bonny
and
Mary Read
were found guilty of piracy and sentenced to hang. However, after each claimed that she was pregnant, both were spared the death penalty.