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Slaver Captain (Seafarers' Voices Book 3) Kindle Edition

by John Newton (Author), Vincent McInerney (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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 merchants wife, an African Duchess called Princess Peye, who abused him along with her slaves. As he wrote himself, he was an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves of West Africa.In 1748 he was rescued and returned home and it was on this voyage that he experienced his spiritual conversion. Though avoiding profanity, women, gambling and drinking he continued in the slave trade, taking up a position on a ship bound for the West Indies and then making three further voyages as a captain of slave ships. In 1755, after suffering a severe stroke, he turned away from seafaring and pursued a path to the priesthood, becoming the curate at Olney in 1764.His Authentic Narrative, as it was called, is a remarkable, no-holds-barred account of the African slave trade, as well as an account of his struggle between religion and the flesh.
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    110 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Seaforth Publishing
  4. Publication date
    November 8, 2010
  5. File size
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John Newton, born in 1725, went to sea at age eleven with his father to train to become a slave master on a Jamaican sugar plantation. In 1788 he finally denounced the appalling conditions of the slave ships and died in 1807.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KTI0T5E
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seaforth Publishing (November 8, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 8, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 586 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 110 pages
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars interesting primary source
    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2025
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    Newton’s letters are interesting although one questions how objective he is. Certainly an interesting perspective on slavery and salvation on a fascinating life. A must read for anyone interested in learning about slavery and the classic hymn, Amazing Grace.
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  • M. Baerends
    3.0 out of 5 stars slaver captain
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2012
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    The third in the 'seafarers voices' series, this book is, in my humble opinion, not nearly as good as the first two ('galley slave' and 'a privateer's voyage'. While Newton's life was easily rich enough in material for a spectacular book, the problem is that his writing simply was not very good. The fact that about half the text is dedicated to his search for religious redemption rather than about slave trading does not help either. Having said this, I do not regret having bought & read this very authentic book, it is just that the other two I mentioned before were more interesting.
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