Slaver Captain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, John.

Contributor:

Newton, John, Contributor.

Series:

Seafarers Voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newton, John, 1725-1807.

Newton, John.

Abolitionists--Great Britain--Biography.

Anglican Communion--Clergy--Biography.

Clergy--England--Biography.

Merchant marine--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Seafaring life--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Ship captains--England--Liverpool--Biography.

Slave ships--History.

Slave trade--England--Liverpool--History--18th century.

Slave traders--England--Liverpool--Biography.

Slave traders--England--Liverpool--History--18th century.

Clergy--History--18th century--England--Biography.

Clergy.

Seafaring life.

Abolitionists--History--18th century--Great Britain--Biography.

Abolitionists.

Slave traders--History--18th century--England--Liverpool--Biography.

Slave traders.

Ship captains--History--18th century--Liverpool--England--Biography.

Ship captains.

Slave trade--Clergy--Liverpool--England--Biography.

Slave trade.

Slave traders--History--England--Liverpool.

Slave ships--Great Britain.

Slave ships.

Merchant marine--Great Britain.

Merchant marine.

Anglican Communion.

Local Subjects:

Abolitionists--Great Britain--Biography.

Anglican Communion--Clergy--Biography.

Clergy--England--Biography.

Merchant marine--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Newton, John, 1725-1807.

Seafaring life--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Ship captains--England--Liverpool--Biography.

Slave ships--History.

Slave trade--England--Liverpool--History--18th century.

Slave traders--England--Liverpool--Biography.

Slave traders--England--Liverpool--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Seaforth Publishing, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Editorial Note; Introduction; Slaver Captain; Part I: Thoughts on the African Slave Trade: A Memoir of my Infidel Days as a Slaving Captain; Part II: An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Life of John Newton; Chapter 1: Letters I & II Childhood and youth.; Chapter 2: Letters III & IV I fall in love. The beginnings of my sea career. Impressment. Desertion to see my love. I am retaken and publicly flogged and disrated. I exchange into a Guineaman.

Chapter 3: Letters V & VI I arrive at Africa and become a slave of slaves. After many trials and much suffering I am rescued.Chapter 4: Letters VII & VIII Returning to Liverpool the ship is caught in a great storm and we are on the brink of eternity. Here I find God. Supplies fail and cannibalism is in the air. I am seen as a Jonah to be thrown overboard. We finally make land.

Chapter 5: Letters IX & X I hear of my father's death but he leaves me his blessing for my marriage. I sign as mate on my first voyage proper on a slaver. I go to Chatham to make another proposal to my wife to be. I collect my first cargo of slaves and have a narrow escape from death.

Chapter 6: Letters XI & XII We sell the slaves at Charleston, Carolina, and I meet and talk with serious professors of religion. We sail back to Liverpool. I go to Chatham and am married to Mary Catlett. I sail again from Liverpool as Captain of the African. I study Latin and theology during the voyage and return safely home. I sail again as captain in 1752. My men mutiny as do the slaves. I quell both uprisings. My days are eight hours for sleep and meals, eight hours for exercise and devoti...

Chapter 7: Letters XIII & XIV My third voyage. I take an old friend who proves a libertine. I leave him on the African coast where he dies of his excesses. At St Kitts I meet as serious a fellow Christian as myself. Back at Liverpool preparing for my next voyage in November, 1754, I am visited with an apoplectic stroke and my sea career is ended. Mrs Newton now falls very ill. I am fortunate to be appointed Tide Surveyor to Liverpool and begin to prepare myself to enter the Church of England ...Appendix: 'Amazing Grace'; Notes

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ISBN:

9781783464050

1783464054

9781783468713

1783468718

OCLC:

881887738