JOHN HAWKINS

One of the reasons that this quotation is particularly interesting is that Hawkins appeared to be a very reverent and moral man and yet he was the person who opened the Slave Trade in England. Queen Elizabeth evidently regarded the opening of the slave-trade as a worthy achievement, for after his second voyage she made Hawkins a knight, giving him for a crest the image of a Negro's head and bust with the arms securely bound. Queen Elizabeth I, for all her virtues as a monarch, was also totally insensitive to the sufferings of the Negro slaves. Two hundred years thereafter, other English politicians and leaders would take the world lead in abolishing the slave trade.

One of the reasons that this quotation is particularly interesting is that Hawkins appeared to be a very reverent and moral man and yet he was the person who opened the Slave Trade in England. Queen Elizabeth evidently regarded the opening of the slave-trade as a worthy achievement, for after his second voyage she made Hawkins a knight, giving him for a crest the image of a Negro's head and bust with the arms securely bound. Queen Elizabeth I, for all her virtues as a monarch, was also totally insensitive to the sufferings of the Negro slaves. Two hundred years thereafter, other English politicians and leaders would take the world lead in abolishing the slave trade.