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Sir John Hawkins : Queen Elizabeth's slave trader / Harry Kelsey.
Van Pelt Library DA86.22.H3 K45 2003
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelsey, Harry, 1929-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawkins, John, Sir, 1532-1595.
- Hawkins, John.
- Slave trade--History--16th century.
- Slave trade.
- Slave traders--England--Biography.
- Slave traders.
- History.
- Great Britain--History, Naval--Tudors, 1485-1603--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Naval history.
- England.
- Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this riveting book, Kelsey, biographer of Sir Francis Drake, tells the story of Drake's cousin Hawkins, who was a successful seaman and played a pivotal role in the history of England and the emergence of the global slave trade. 23 illustrations.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-388) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300096631
- OCLC:
- 50204046
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