Jacquotte Delahaye

Jacquotte Delahaye (* around 1630s in Hispaniola ; † around 1663) was a pirate or buccaneer who was active in the Caribbean . Along with Anne Bonny and Mary Read , she was one of the few female pirates in the Caribbean.

biography

Jacquotte Delahaye came from the island of Hispaniola, from what is now Haiti . She was the daughter of a French and a native. It is said that the mother died giving birth. Her brother was slightly disabled and she looked after him after his father died. According to legend and tales, she became a pirate after the violent death of her father.

There are many myths about her life. To avoid her pursuers, she allegedly faked her own death and lived for many years disguised as a man among the pirates. After her return she was nicknamed "Undead Red" because of her bright red hair, one of her trademarks.

She was the leader of a hundred pirates, with whose help she took a Caribbean island in 1656, which she declared a "privateer republic". She died about seven years later while defending them.

literature

• Charles H. Parker: Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400--1800 . Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-139-49141-9 ( google.se ).