he later denounced the slave trade, becoming a great influence in its demise. After his mother's death when he was seven, John Newton went to English schools that prepared students for the ministry.

He readily agreed to present their case. The fight for abolition of the trade was joined by many others, including former slave ship captain John Newton, former slave ship surgeon Alexander ...

After a crushing political defeat, William Wilberforce nearly gave up his fight to abolish the slave trade. But a life-changing letter from John Newton sent this Daniel back into the lion's den.

A church is to create an educational area about a slave trader who became an abolitionist. John Newton was curate of St Peter and Paul's Church in Olney, Buckinghamshire, between 1764 and 1780.

Between its opening under Elizabeth I in 1567 and its closure under her namesake in 1984, Chatham Dockyard, on the Medway in ...

Lord JOHN RUSSELL rightly says that Cuba is the only transatlantic country with which the Slave-trade is now carried on; and he also knows, though he does not say it, that if Spain was in earnest ...

Clergyman John Newton, a former slave ship captain ... In 1788, 34 years after he had retired from the slave trade, Newton wrote a pamphlet called, 'Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade', in which ...

Geograph/Alastair Stone John Newton's grave is in the churchyard ... written by a white man who himself was involved in the slave trade," she said, "but somehow he managed to write something ...

It wasn’t easy, but eventually a law was passed which abolished the slave trade altogether. Truly I had done something of which I could feel proud. By Jan Payne My name is John Newton and I want ...

Veteran ag economist John Newton, Ph.D., joins Terrain as its new leader. Newton succeeds Terrain founder, Don Close, who ...

Mr. Walvin, an emeritus professor of history at the University of York, encountered the hymn during his study of the Atlantic ...

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