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The Slave Trade and the King's Legacy
A certain francis drake, born the first child of a devon farmer, becomes a sailor in his teens. In his twenties, drake accompanies hawkins on voyages to sierra leone where they are involved in enslaving around 12 hundred africans and killing thousands more. It's a time when the spanish and portuguese regard the lucrative slave trade as their monopoly. Philip the second puts a price on his head of 20 thousand ducats, dead or alive. And elizabeth finds out. She may not be able to read the documents as we can, but she has enough intelligence to know that philip the second has tried to kill her and depose
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