Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Hawkins NPG D48075

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Boissard

Sir John Hawkins was a merchant, sea captain, ship owner and one of the first English people involved in the Transatlantic slave trade. After running private ships in the Anglo-French war of 1557-8, Hawkins had made several voyages to the Canary Islands where he heard about the possibilities of trading slaves from the west coast of Africa. On his first voyage, he took 300 enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to sell in Spain’s Caribbean colonies. Further attempts raised large profits; such sizable returns resulted in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.