John Newton
John Newton (; – 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. He served as a sailor in the Royal Navy (after forced recruitment) and was himself enslaved for a time in West Africa. He is noted for being author of the hymns ''Amazing Grace'' and ''Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken''.Newton went to sea at a young age and worked on slave ships in the slave trade for several years. In 1745, he himself became a slave of Princess Peye, a woman of the Sherbro people in what is now Sierra Leone. He was rescued, returned to sea and the trade, becoming Captain of several slave ships. After retiring from active sea-faring, he continued to invest in the slave trade. Some years after experiencing a conversion to Christianity, Newton later renounced his trade and became a prominent supporter of abolitionism. Now an evangelical, he was ordained as a Church of England cleric and served as parish priest at Olney, Buckinghamshire, for two decades and wrote hymns.
Newton lived to see the British Empire's abolition of the African slave trade in 1807, just months before his death. Provided by Wikipedia
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Amazing Grace / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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The journal of a slave trader (John Newton) 1750-1754, by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Out of the depths : an autobiography / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Thoughts upon the African slave trade / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Charlestown / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of Mr. Newton. : Communicated, in a series of letters, to the Reverend Mr. Haweis, Rector of Aldwi... by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of Mr. Newton. : Communicated in a series of letters, to the Rev. Mr. Haweis, Rector of Aldwinckle... by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Cardiphonia: or, The utterance of the heart : in the course of a real correspondence. / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Cardiphonia: or, The utterance of the heart : in the course of a real correspondence. / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Letters and sermons, with a review of ecclesiastical history, and hymns. / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Letters, originally published under the signatures of Omicron and Vigil. / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Letters, originally published under the signatures of Omicron and Vigil. / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Letters to a wife. / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Letters to a wife. / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Messiah. : Fifty expository discourses, on the series of Scriptural passages, which form the subject of the celebrated oratorio of Handel. Preached in the years 1784 and 1785, in t... by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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A monument to the praise of the Lord's goodness, and to the memory of dear Eliza Cunningham : (published for the benefit of a charitable institution.) : [Two lines of quotations]. by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Olney humns : in three books. Book I. On select texts of Scripture. Book II. On occasional subjects. Book III. On the progress and changes of the spiritual life. / by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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