After Bussa’s Slave Revolt (1816 Barbados) It started out as an image of a young girl and her cat watching a ship sail off into the sunset. “That would make a good Fool card for a tarot about amazon pirates,” I thought. “Who hasn’t stood at the edge of the sea and wished for high adventure?” I’ve always loved that line: “All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” That led me to start searching for art featuring female buccaneers. There’s some but a vast majority of the women are oddly Teutonic and wear the same exact two things: unbuttoned shirts featuring cleavage and skirts, neither of which makes a lick of sense if you spend your days running up and down the rigging of a wind-jammer. Also, if you’re going to set art in the Caribbean you can’t willfully ignore the Middle Passage or the role piracy played in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.