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Jacquotte Delahaye (fl. 1656) was a purported pirate of legend in the Caribbean Sea. She has been depicted as operating alongside Anne Dieu-le-Veut as one of very few 17th-century female pirates. There is no evidence from period sources that Delahaye was a real person. Stories of her exploits are attributed to oral storytelling and Leon Treich, a French fiction writer of the 1940s.




Biography


Delahaye reportedly came from Saint-Domingue in modern Haiti, and was the daughter of a French father and a Haitian mother, who spoke French. Her mother is said to have died while giving birth to her brother, who suffered a mild mental disability, 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 was a war hero, and to escape her pursuers she faked her own death and took on a nom de guerre in the form of 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 Tortuga, a small Caribbean island off the northwest coast of Hispaniola, in the year of 1656, which was called a "freebooter republic". Several years later, she died in a shoot-out while defending it.




Historicity


Primary sources which mention her, her work and happenings, or her life are unknown, nor are there any first-hand accounts. Laura Sook Duncombe wrote: "If Anne de Graaf has only a small chance of having really lived, Jacquotte Delahaye has an even smaller one." The Spanish author Germán Vázquez Chamorro wrote in Mujeres Piratas ('Pirate Women') that she did not exist, but was a literary creation "...added into the lore of the buccaneer period to make the ruthless men more palatable to the modern reader." Stories of her exploits are attributed to oral storytelling and Leon Treich, a French fiction writer of the 1940s.
As Benerson Little summarizes:

Jacquotte Delahaye, for example, is said to have been a biracial female filibuster. An entire, if brief, biography has been written of her and repeated without question in books and online. She commanded a ship with a crew of a hundred men; she rejected a marriage proposal from filibuster Michel d'Artigue, known as 'le Basque'; and she led the attack on Fort de la Roche on Tortuga and recaptured it from the Spanish. But there is no evidence that she existed.




In popular culture


Delahaye's story is the lead subject of Back from The Dead Red, a small independently produced animated film written by Joanna Benecke.
In the period romantic comedy television series Our Flag Means Death, Leslie Jones appeared as the pirate "Spanish Jackie", who some think was based on Delahaye.




See also


Charlotte de Berry
Filibuster
Privateer




References






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Breverton, Terry (December 15, 2018). A Gross of Pirates From Alfhild the Shield Maiden to Afweyne the Big Mouth (Ebook). Stroud: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445682938.
Chamorro, Germán Vázquez (2004). Mujeres Piratas (Hardcover) (in Spanish) (Algaba Ediciones ed.). Editorial Edaf, S.L. pp. 201–206. ISBN 9788496107267.
Duncombe, Laura Sook (April 1, 2017). Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas (Print, E-book). Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781613736043.
Favilli, de Elena; Cavallo, Francesca; Shapiro, Jessica (October 4, 2017). Histoire tirée des " Histoires du soir des filles Rebelles" (in French). Paris, France: Les Arènes. ISBN 978-2352046783.
Jaeger, Gérard A. (1984). Les femmes d'abordage chroniques historiques et légendaires des aventurières de la mer (in French). Paris: Clancier-Guénaud. pp. 59–61. ISBN 9782862150550.
Klausmann, Framsida Ulrike; Meiefnzerin, Marion; Kuhn, Gabriel (1997). Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger. Montreal, New York: Black Rose Books. p. 168. ISBN 9781551640594.
Little, Benerson (October 4, 2016). The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths (Ebook). New York: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN 9781510713048. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
Owen, Erika; Wright, Alexander (Illustrator) (March 23, 2021). Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History (Hardcover). United States: S&S/Simon Element. pp. 6, 7, 177. ISBN 9781982147082.
Parker, Charles H. (2010). Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN 9781139491419.
Vallar, Cindy (2017). "Books for Adults - Nonfiction". Pirates and Privateers. Retrieved February 21, 2022.




Further reading


Apps, Gemma. (May 4, 2021) Jacquotte Delahaye Sagas of She. WordPress.
Zuidhoek, Arne (2015). A-Z Pirate Encyclopedia: Deprived of God & Country. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Julius de Goede BV – via Google Books.




External links


http://kiba.vox.com/library/post/pirate-quotes.html
"Jacquotte Delahaye - Pirate #livre audio" (Video). Histoire tirée des " Histoires du soir des filles Rebelles" de Elena Favilli et Francesca Cavallo. (in French). January 31, 2022 – via YouTube.
Jacquotte Delahaye — video game at Stronghold nation
Privateer Dragons' Island. Pirate History and Reference Piracy by Dates: Late 1500's - Mid 1700's

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