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To: advance_copy

Article was sort of disingenuous, but not exactly wrong in the end. Elizabeth did support/expand John Hawkins’ triangular trade/slave trade in the West Indies. Planning stages for colonies were being carried out (Raleigh, etc...).


13 posted on 08/16/2017 10:49:52 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: rollo tomasi

This seems a stretch, as the colonies in the West Indies were all Spanish, not English, prior to 1648. Merchant ships of many kingdoms in Europe carried cargo to the Spanish colonies. And I have never heard of any pre-Jamestown planning by the Crown for slavery in English colonies, but I’d be curious if you can provide any documents of it.


14 posted on 08/17/2017 12:58:25 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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