"Newton, John, 1725-1807." . . "Slave ships History." . . "Clergy England Biography." . . "Clergy." . . "Slave traders." . . "Ship captains England Liverpool Biography." . . "Anglican Communion Clergy Biography." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General" . . "TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Pictorial" . . "Great Britain." . . "Slave trade." . . "Abolitionists." . . "1700 - 1799" . . "Slave trade England Liverpool History 18th century." . . "England." . . "England" . "Anglican Communion Clergy." . . "Merchant marine." . . "Slave traders England Liverpool History 18th century." . . . "History" . "History"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Slaver Captain"@en . . . "Biography" . "Biography"@en . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Slaver captain"@en . . . "Slaver captain" . . . . . . "John Newton is now best remembered as an Anglican clergyman and the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. For the first thirty years of his life, however, he was engrossed in the slave trade. His father planned for him to take up a position as slave master on a West Indies plantation but he was instead pressed into the Royal Navy where, after attempting to desert, he was captured and flogged round the fleet. After this humiliation he was placed in service on a slave ship bound for Sierra Leone, but there, having upset his captain and crew, he found himself the servant of the merchant's wife, an Af."@en . . "Slave traders England Liverpool Biography." . . "Slave ships." . . "Abolitionists Great Britain Biography." . . . . "Seafaring life." . . "Merchant marine Great Britain History 18th century." . . "Seafaring life Great Britain History 18th century." . . "Ship captains." . .