The Queen's Slave Trader: Jack Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls

Nick Hazlewood

ISBN 10: 0066210895 / ISBN 13: 9780066210896

Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 2004

About this Item

8vo pp. 416, "The age of the English sea dogs can still conjure up romantic images of brave, flamboyant mariners who challenged the mighty Spanish empire. Of course, the reality was more sordid. Hazlewood, a freelance journalist, has chosen a fairly representative figure of a brutal period: John Hawkyns, born into a prominent, prosperous middle-class family?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Queen's Slave Trader: Jack Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0066210895
• ISBN 13: 9780066210896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • British History

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Synopsis

Documents the slave trade in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, exploring the life of Elizabeth I's personal slave trader to chronicle his controversial career, the political and religious factors that influenced the period, and his confrontations with the Spanish. 40,000 first printing.

Review

“Hazlewood’s book is a tour de force.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“A gripping tale and a sterling analysis of England’s first foray into the nastiest of human enterprises.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“[An] engrossing, well-researched account.” (Booklist)

“Hazlewood writes with precision, passion and the ease born of familiarity with his subject.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)