How a runaway slave became right-hand man of first English explorer to circumnavigate the world
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History remembers Sir Francis Drake as an English sea captain and privateer (“legal pirate”) who was also a slave trader and explorer. Drake was involved in some of the earliest English slaving voyages to Africa and was famed for his privateering against Spanish ships and possessions. He became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe...