Awesome Historical Pirate Women They Didn’t Teach You About in School

Christina Anna Skytte

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A Swedish baroness, Christina Anna Skytte entered into a secret piracy business with her husband, brother and other partners, and took part in the raid and sinking of a ship. Skytte escaped to Denmark to avoid arrest after their pirate cabal was discovered, but no prosecution or order for her arrest was ever produced, as under the shortsightedly patriarchal laws of the time, a married woman was considered a minor.

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