The Queen's Slave Trader: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls (Hardcover)

Author: Nick Hazlewood
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780066210896
Publisher: Rayo
Publish Date: 12/1/2004
Buy.com Sku: 36503118
Item#: BV7EJE
Pages: 384
 
In the 17th and 18th centuries, England became the greatest slave trading nation in the world. This painstakingly researched biography of Jack Hawkyns, the queen's personal slave trader, explores his life and chronicles the rise of the English slave trade.
 
 
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Chapter One

John Hawkyns had tasted blood at a very early age. His killing of a barber in his hometown is recorded in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for July 1552:

Because the king learns by the record of Nicholas Slannyng, coroner within the borough of Plymouth, Devon, upon view of the body of John Whyte, late of Plymouth, "barbour," that John Hawkins killed him in self-defence:

Pardon to the
said John Hawkins
for the said death.

At the time of the royal pardon Hawkyns was barely twenty years old. No more is known of the events leading up to the tragedy, and nothing is known of how John Whyte was killed. It certainly involved violence. Whether Hawkyns's innocence is really established by the pardon is neither here nor there -- such pieces of paper could be purchased by rich and powerful families. What it does illustrate, however, is that even as a young man from a wealthy background, Joh

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