Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade by John Newton

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade

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  • Genre History
  • Publisher Wildside Press LLC
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  • Size 9.59 MB
  • Length 31 Pages

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Originally a slave trader, John Newton experienced a religious conversion and became an Anglican clergyman and fervent abolitionist. His 1788 essay is notable for its frank descriptions of conditions on board slave ships during the Middle Passage.

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