Research Introduction
For the final essay within this class, I decided that I will be researching the capture of Anne Bonny and Mary Read. More specifically, I will be examining how the rest of their crew's lack of cooperation in fighting against their captors and quickly surrendering that lead to their capture. Over the course of my research, I found many different things to support this theory, including evidence to support the fact that Calico Jack surrendered after the opposing side fired only one shot. I also many different pieces of evidence to argue that the rest of the crew was drunk the night that Johnathan Barnet captured them. It's also believed that when during the final fight to avoid their capture Mary Read shot below deck, killing a man and calling out "If there's a man among ye, ye'll come up and fight like the man ye are to be!". However, no one below deck was either sobber enough or willing enough to go against the captain's order to surrender.