Slaver Captain.Seafarers' Voices
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 African Duchess called Princess Peye, who abused him…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84832-079-6
- EAN: 9781848320796
- Produktnummer: 7784765
- Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H18.7 cm x B12.6 cm x D1.9 cm 242 g
- Abbildungen: 1 map
- Gewicht: 242
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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