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John Hawkins.
English navigator, admiral, privateer and slave trader (1532-1595)
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About John Hawkins
Admiral Sir John Hawkins was an English naval commander, naval administrator, privateer and slave trader. Hawkins pioneered, and was an early promoter of, English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. He is considered to be the first English merchant to profit from the Triangle Trade, selling enslaved people from Africa to the Spanish colonies in the West Indies in the late 16th century.
Everything about John Hawkins →- Occupation
- privateer, politician, businessperson, slave trader
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1571 Parliament, Member of the 1572-83 Parliament
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1532
- Died
- November 12, 1595