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Sir John Hawkins
England’s First Slave Trader

[Image date 1581 Public Domain – Wikipedia ]

 

John Hawkins was England’s first slave trader. In 1562 he sailed from The Barbican in Plymouth with three ships and violently kidnapped about 400 Africans in Guinea, later trading them in the West Indies. Between 1562 and 1567 Hawkins and his cousin Francis Drake made three voyages to Guinea and Sierra Leone and enslaved between 1,200 and 1,400 Africans. Read More

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Harry Kelsey. Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth’s Slave Trader. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002). 

Robert Southey. Lives of the British Admirals: With an Introductory View of the Naval History of England.
(London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green & Longman’s, and John Taylor, 1833.).

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Black Presence. “Early Times: Adventurers and Slavers,” An exhibit in the National Archives of the United Kingdom.

“Sir John Hawkins: England’s first slave trader who was Mayor of Plymouth,” Blacknet Working Group.

Terry Kirby, “Slave trader’s descendant begs forgiveness in Africa,” Independent, June 22, 2006.

Mark Sheaves, “Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth’s Slave Trader, by Harry Kelsey (2003),”  Not Even Past.

“Portrait of Sir John Hawkins,” USI Understanding Slavery Initiative

“Who was John Hawkins?” Royal Museums Greenwich.

John Sparke, “The Voyage Made by M. John Hawkins Esquire, 1565,” American Journeys.

Sir John Hawkins – Wikipedia

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