Harry Kelsey Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader.

Harry Kelsey Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader. novel Haven, Conn.: Yale University Pres 2003 Pp xiv, 402 ISBN 0-300-09663-1

Hawkins is common of the better documented Elizabethans. Unlike Drake he came of an established merchant family, and for nearly twenty years he held an important office in a less degree than the Crown. His will survives, a fair amount of correspondence, official and otherwise, and smooth some published work, more or les from his acknowledge pen. He also cut a swath within the Spanish New World, leaving a variety of indirect testimony to his activities in the

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