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Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) served as treasurer, and later controller, for the British Royal Navy. But his career at sea was as a privateer (pirate) and slave trader, sailing the "triangular trade" and plundering the Spanish and Portuguese ships in the Caribbean.

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first english men to be part of the slave trade

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