...had previously denounced the practice of slavery, saying with all due piety, "It [the slave trade] would be detestable and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertaking." But she soon took shares in John Hawkins's second slave-running venture and loaned him...

...had officially opposed slavery, stating, "If any African were carried away without his free consent it would be detestable and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertaking," in 1564 she was investing again, this time in Hawkins's second expedition to Guinea.'"...

...for the expedition with the hope that slaves would not be taken against their will something 'which would be detestable and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers'6 - it was certainly not possible to take them in any other way, although the three hundred...

...and upon his country, was Sir John Hawkins ; on his return, Elizabeth expressed her fears lest any of the Africans should be carried off without their...down the vengeance of heaven upon the undertakers. The trade, however, was begun, and continued : and when, in the succeeding rtign, the writer of Sir...

...lest any of the Africans should be carried off without their free consent, in which case she declared, that " it would be detestable, and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers." But sucli scruples were silenced by the false representation, that the negroes had been taken away...