John Newton

Contemporary portrait of Newton John Newton (; – 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. He served as a sailor in the Royal Navy (after forced recruitment) and was himself enslaved for a time in West Africa. He is noted for being author of the hymns ''Amazing Grace'' and ''Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken''.

Newton went to sea at a young age and worked on slave ships in the slave trade for several years. In 1745, he himself became a slave of Princess Peye, a woman of the Sherbro people in what is now Sierra Leone. He was rescued, returned to sea and the trade, becoming Captain of several slave ships. After retiring from active sea-faring, he continued to invest in the slave trade. Some years after experiencing a conversion to Christianity, Newton later renounced his trade and became a prominent supporter of abolitionism. Now an evangelical, he was ordained as a Church of England cleric and served as parish priest at Olney, Buckinghamshire, for two decades and wrote hymns.

Newton lived to see the British Empire's abolition of the African slave trade in 1807, just months before his death. Provided by Wikipedia
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Letters, containing the Authentic narrative, and those which originally appeared in a periodical publication, under the signatures Omicron and Vigil. By John Newton,
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Edinburgh : printed by Murray and Cochrane, for John Guthrie; John Fairbairn; and John Ogle, 1798

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Cardiphonia or, The utterance of the heart; in the course of a real correspondence. By the author of Omicron's letters. In two volumes. ...
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Philadelphia : Printed by William Young, bookseller, no. 52, Second-Street, the corner of Chesnut-Street, 1792
The fifth edition.

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Chwech ar hugain o lythyrau ar destunau crefyddol Gan Omicron. Wedi newydd eu cyfieithu o'r Saesonaeg, i'r Cymraeg, ... gan William Davies. At ba rai y chwanegwyd ychydig hymnau ...
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Caerfyrddin : argraffwyd gan J. Ross, 1777

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Letters to a wife
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Whitehall [i.e. Philadelphia] : Printed for W.W. Woodward, 1814

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Cardiphonia or, the utterance of the heart; in the course of a real correspondence. By the author of Omicron's Letters. The second edition. In two volumes. ...
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Buckland; and J. Johnson, 1782

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Letters, sermons, and a review of ecclesiastical history. By John Newton, ... In three volumes.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Edinburgh : printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran. Sold, at Edinburgh, by Mess. Gray, Dickson, and Elliot; at Glasgow, by Mess. J. Duncan, Dunlop & Wilson, and J. Bryce; at Aberdeen, by Angus & Son; at Perth, by J. Gillies; at Dundee, by R. Nicol; at Kelso, by G. Elliot; and at Dumfries, by E. Wilson, 1780

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Twenty-six letters on religious subjects by Omicron. To which are now added fourteen letters, by the same author, formerly published under the signature of Vigil: and three fugitive pieces in verse.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Johnson, 1793

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The constraining influence of the love of Christ: a sermon, preached, in the church of the united parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolnoth-Haw, Lombard-Street, ... on the 30th day of March, 1800, by John Newton, ... for the benefit of the children belonging to the Langbourn-Ward Charity-School;
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed by H. L. Galabin; and sold, for the benefit of the Charity, by Mr. Ayres; Mr. Carel; and Mr. Batt, 1800

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An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of Mr. Newton: Communicated, in a series of letters, to the Reverend Mr. Haweis, Rector of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire; and by him, at the request of friends, now made public. : [Five lines from Psalms]
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
[Philadelphia : s.n.], 1783

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Letters to a wife by the author of Cardiphonia.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Johnson, 1793

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Cardiphonia or, the utterance of the heart; in the course of a real correspondence. By the author of Omicron's letters. The fourth edition. In two volumes. ...
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Buckland; and J. Johnson, 1787

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Sermons preached in the parish-church of Olney, in Buckinghamshire ... By John Newton,
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for the author: and sold by J. Johnson and B. Davenport; T. and J. Merrill, at Cambridge; T. Cadell, at Bristol; Todd and Sootheran, at York; W. Edwards, at Halifax; J. Gore, at Liverpool; and T. Luckman, at Coventry, 1767

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Letters and sermons, with A review of ecclesiastical history, and hymns. By John Newton, ... In six volumes.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Edinburgh : printed by Murray & Cochrane. And sold by them at their printing-house. Sold also by J. Dickson, C. Elliot, M. Gray, and W. Laing, Edinburgh; [and 3 others in Glasgow, 1 in Aberdeen, and 1 in Dundee], 1787

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Motives to humiliation and praise. A sermon, preached in the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth, ... on December 19, 1797, ... By John Newton,
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Johnson, 1798

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The christian correspondent; or a series of religious letters, written by the Rev. John Newton, ... to Captain Alexr. Clunie, ... Never before published
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Hull : printed by George Prince, 1790

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Twenty six letters on religious subjects ... To which are added, hymns, &c. by Omicron.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed by W. Oliver, 1777
The third edition.

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Thoughts upon the African slave trade. By John Newton, rector of St. Mary Woolnoth
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : Printed for J. Buckland, in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Phillips, in George-Yard, 1788

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An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of Mr. Newton Communicated in a series of letters to the Rev. Mr. Haweis, Rector of Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire; [Six lines of Scripture texts].
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
New-York : Printed by W.A. Davis, for C. Davis, no. 212, Water-Street, 1796

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Six discourses, as intended for the pulpit By John Newton.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Liverpool : printed for the author, by R. Williamson, 1760

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A view of ecclesiastical history. By John Newton, author of Omicron's letters, Cardiphonia, &c.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Boston : Printed for Joseph Bumstead, printer and bookseller, no. 20, Union-Street, 1798

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