How Two 18th-Century Lady Pirates Became BFFs on the High Seas

How Two 18th-Century Lady Pirates Became BFFs on the High Seas: The fact that Anne Bonny and Mary Read ever crossed paths at all is almost unbelievable. Of the thousands of pirates active in the Caribbean during the 17th and 18th centuries, we know the names of just two female marauders. In 1719, the pair would forge an improbable friendship that would start on the high seas and end less than two years later in a damp, dark jail in Spanish Town, Jamaica.