How Sarah Kidd, the wife of a pirate captain, reinvented herself
by Hannah Fish
Feb 07, 2023
2 minutes
Among English ballads exists a song about the 18th-century pirate Capt. William Kidd. Although not entirely factual, it describes a man who murdered another sailor before it concludes: “Take warning now by me, and shun bad company,” or else listeners might suffer the punishment that Kidd met at the end of a noose.
But as history reveals, not everyone shunned Kidd’s charismatic company. Among his few, fast
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