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John Newton

John Newton of Liverpool, an eighteenth-century captain of English slave ships, was active in the African trade until bad health forced him to abandon this career. He taught himself Latin while still captaining slavers. The future vicar of Saint Mary's Woolroth, Captain Newton wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace."

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Image ID: EM12244
Title: John Newton.
Source: Old New York or Reminiscences of the past sixty years.
Created: 1880
Location: Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Subjects: Composers
Liverpool (England)
Newton, John, 1725-1807
Ship captains
Slave traders
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