Jacquotte Delahaye
Jacquotte Delahaye (floruit 1656), was a pirate, or buccaneer, active in the Caribbean sea. Alongside Anne Dieu-le-Veut, she was one of very few female buccaneers.
Biography
Delahaye reportedly came from Saint-Domingue in present-day Haiti, and was the daughter of a French father and a Haitian mother. Her mother is said to have died in childbirth. Her brother suffered from mild retardation, and was left in her care after her father's death. According to legend and tradition, she became a pirate after the murder of her father.
Jacquotte Delahaye is the subject of many legendary stories. To escape her pursuers, she faked her own death and took on a male alias, living as a man for many years. Upon her return, she became known as "back from the dead red" because of her striking red hair.
She led a gang of hundreds of pirates, and with their help took over a small Caribbean island in the year ofo 1656, which was called a "freeboter republic". [1] Several years later, she died in a shootout while defending it.[2]
References
- ↑ Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400–1800. Charles H. Parker
- ↑ Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400–1800. Charles H. Parker
- Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin, Gabriel Kuhn: Women pirates and the politics of the Jolly Roger Black Rose Books (1997)
- Charles H. Parker: Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400–1800 (2010)
External links
- http://www.privateerdragons.com/pirate_list.html
- http://kiba.vox.com/library/post/pirate-quotes.html