Grade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… English slaving voyage to Africa, in 1562, in the reign of Elizabeth 1. Hawkins made three such journeys over a period … Estimates, based on records of voyages in the archives of port customs and maritime insurance records, put the total … but it spawned jobs in a host of local industries in the port itself and also far into the hinterland. Despite the …