Hawkins's first slaving voyage
1562 · Event
John Hawkins sails from Plymouth, seizes some 300 Africans off Sierra Leone and sells them in Spanish Hispaniola, beginning the English slave trade.
On these timelines: Slavery & Abolition, England, Master, Latin America, United Kingdom (combined)
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