Stepping out of my time machine and into what's often called The Golden Age of Piracy I was most excited to meet infamous pirates like Blackbeard and Henry Morgan. If it was Henry Morgan I'd have a bottle of Captain Morgan spiced rum to give him while saying how legendary you are in the far future. The sun was beating on me and off in the distance I saw a ship approaching and was hoping it wasn't a naval ship. The very last thing I was hoping to see.
Much to my very surprise once the ship came ashore out came a pirate. Not Morgan or Blackbeard but a female pirate! After reading titles like "Under the Black Flag" and "Buccaneers and Pirates" I was under the assumption that my chances of running into a female pirate would be slim to none. A part of me was expecting to be hacked into bits and my Captain Morgan rum stolen but surprisingly she welcomed me aboard the ship with open arms. Once on the ship and seeing the rest of the crew I was even more surprised to see it was a mixture of male and female pirates. Everyone was pulling their weight and working very diligently. Comparing what I saw to what I read was like day and night. Women, with the exception of a few were often wives, maids, or mistresses. Here though was a female pirate who had her ship running to max effect.
She told me her name was Angelica Cruz and was born in South America. She lived alone and would do various odd jobs on her native island to survive. At a young age she was taken from her parents and longed to be reunited one day with them. Angelica was very optimistic when I asked about them saying, "They'll be back. I know they will". It wasn't until very recently when she was taught about the life of piracy by someone she named Han. She told me Han would say how much a natural she was at Piracy but yet she also had a huge heart and didn't believe in killing. In a way, Angelica was the most non-pirate pirate you'd every meet in your life. Her ship was inherited after Han was murdered in a encounter with the British army. Physically compared to other pirates in that era she was rather attractive and very headstrong.
I do wish I had gotten more of a chance to interview her but my time had ran out on my time watch and in the far distance we saw a Naval ship approaching fast. Now that I think about it, I might have changed history rather drastically as I left the rum behind on Angelica's ship. Here's to hoping that illiteracy was very widespread!
