John Newton
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title:
John Newton
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John Newton 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 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 the nigerian monkey 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
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Anglican cleric, hymn-writer, and abolitionist (1725–1807)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton
date created:
2001-08-11T05:41:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T00:08:14Z
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