Sir John Hawkins : Queen Elizabeth's slave trader / Harry Kelsey.

By:

Kelsey, Harry, 1929- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0300096631
9780300096637

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

942.055092 21

LOC classification:

DA86.22.H3 K45 2003

Contents:

The uses of duplicity -- Robbing Portugal and selling to Spain -- Slave trading -- San Juan de Ulúa -- Counting the cost -- Turning defeat into victory -- Changing course -- War with Spain -- There is no other hell -- Weighing Hawkins.

Review: "Although his cousin Sir Francis Drake is more famous, Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) was a more successful seaman and played a pivotal role in the history of England and the emergence of the global slave trade. Born into a family of wealthy pirates, Hawkins became fascinated by tales of the riches of foreign lands. Early in his career he led an illegal expedition in which he captured three hundred slaves in Sierra Leone and transported them to the West Indies, where he traded them for pearls, hides, and sugar - thus giving birth to the British slave trade. His voyages were so lucrative that Queen Elizabeth herself sponsored subsequent missions." "Discouraged from his career as a pirate by a near-fatal encounter with angry Spanish troops, Hawkins spent much of his later life in England at the service of the queen. Although he committed treason, murder, and adultery at various points in his career, he was nonetheless knighted in 1588 for his role in defeating the Spanish Armada."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	942.055092 HAW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A262121B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-388) and index.

"Although his cousin Sir Francis Drake is more famous, Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) was a more successful seaman and played a pivotal role in the history of England and the emergence of the global slave trade. Born into a family of wealthy pirates, Hawkins became fascinated by tales of the riches of foreign lands. Early in his career he led an illegal expedition in which he captured three hundred slaves in Sierra Leone and transported them to the West Indies, where he traded them for pearls, hides, and sugar - thus giving birth to the British slave trade. His voyages were so lucrative that Queen Elizabeth herself sponsored subsequent missions." "Discouraged from his career as a pirate by a near-fatal encounter with angry Spanish troops, Hawkins spent much of his later life in England at the service of the queen. Although he committed treason, murder, and adultery at various points in his career, he was nonetheless knighted in 1588 for his role in defeating the Spanish Armada."--BOOK JACKET.

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