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In this book, Jonathan Aitken discovers John Newton the man, his motivation and beliefs.John Newton is best known as the author of "Amazing Grace" but this brilliant new biography shows how he led one of the most colourful and influential lives of the 18th century. Using a wealth of unpublished material, Jonathan Aitken charts Newton's journey through slave trading, best selling authorship, ordination, church leadership, abolitionist campaigning and the spiritual mentoring of William Wilberforce and William Cowper.From Newton's rip-roaring adventures on the high seas to his emergence as a pivotal figure in the abolitionist and evangelical movements this is a life of amazing achievement as well as of Amazing Grace.
Contents
Acknowledgements; 1 A Spiritual Upbringing; 2 First Steps in Love and Seafaring; 3 Press-ganged; 4 Flogged and Degraded; 5 Exchanged; 6 Enslaved in Africa; 7 Rescued by the Greyhound; 8 Troublemaker and Blasphemer; 9 In the Shadow of Death; 10 False Dawns, More Storms and a Safe Landing; 11 Londonderry, Love and a Liverpool Shipowner; 12 Adventures on the Brownlow; 13 Struggles of Books, Body and Soul; 14 Marriage to Polly; 15 Captain of the Duke of Argyle; 16 First Voyage of the African; 17 The End of a Seafaring Career; 18 Unemployment, Inspiration and Prayer; 19 Methodism and Materialism; 20 Life in Liverpool.
