Hawkins and Drake: Elizabethan Exploration and Trade

Hawkins and Drake: Elizabethan Exploration and Trade

John Hawkins and Francis Drake were prominent English sailors during the Elizabethan era, deeply involved in the burgeoning age of exploration. Their ventures included the lucrative, albeit brutal, slave trade, the looting of Spanish ships, and the sale of goods in the West Indies. These activities were central to England's growing maritime power and economic ambitions.