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Identifier: shorthistoryofen00chey (find matches)
Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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attractions of this search for a northwest passage,filled with danger and unproductive of profit as it proved to be. 320. Hawkinss Voyages.—Other restless English traderscould not content themselves with such fruitless explorations andunproductive voyages when they had reason to believe that farmore profitable ventures might be made in other directions. Asource of almost unlimited gain existed in the slave trade betweenAfrica and the Spanish settlements in America and the West Indies.Negro slaves had been early introduced from the west coast ofAfrica into the Spanish settlements in America. The Spanishgovernment, however, disapproved of slave trading and onlyallowed negroes to be imported into the American colonies in A SHORT : - 1 OF ENG1 kND 3 . - ■ * es, M< - ~ swhi . - sgroes . . sss • - - a5 S stress - 3 snturers 3 - - ■ -srht som< • 2 - 3 - s. ) rroes-jpost - stares embeis-lish traders puis s — ;: ^re Wfcsl - - - 5 j - - essekas, S ..leui, and Spanish goods wen
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357 358 A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND in reprisal. English voyages to the West Indies became moreand more like piracy. There was no war between England and Spain, but the Span-iards were Catholics and the English were Protestants, and enoughexcuse for hostility was found in that fact. Most of the seamenfrom the English trading towns were Puritans, and in the bitterreligious hatred of those days believed that in fighting againstCatholics they were attacking the enemies of God. The Catholics,on the other hand, looked upon the Protestant English as little bet-ter than heathen. Thus trading enterprise, supplemented by reli-gious hatred, was fast drawing Englishmen and Spaniards into warat sea, while their governments continued to be at peace on shore.322. Francis Drake. — In 1572 Francis Drake, a young seacaptain, a relative of Hawkins, and like him a Devonshire man,sailed directly to Spanish America with the unconcealed intentionof pillaging the rich Spanish possessions. He ran into the W

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