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Who was Stede Bonnet?

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Stede Bonnet, also known as the Gentleman Pirate, was an aristocrat who left his family, land, and fortune to pursue a life of piracy. He was born in Barbados to plantation-owning British parents in 1688, began his pirate career in 1717, and was executed in 1718 in Charleston, South Carolina.