Daily Devotion Quotes



One of the reasons that this quotation is particularly interesting is that Hawkins appeared to be a very reverent and moral man and yet he was the person who opened the Slave Trade in England. Queen Elizabeth evidently regarded the opening of the slave-trade as a worthy achievement, for after his second voyage she made Hawkins a knight, giving him for a crest the image of a Negro's head and bust with the arms securely bound. Queen Elizabeth I, for all her virtues as a monarch, was also totally insensitive to the sufferings of the Negro slaves. Two hundred years thereafter, other English politicians and leaders would take the world lead in abolishing the slave trade.