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Lough Swilly
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. Lough Swilly (Loch Súilí) is a sea lough stretching 40 km into County Donegal from the Atlantic Ocean. Also known as the Lake of Shadows, the lough is between 15 and 50 metres deep. It is bordered on the west by Inishowen (Inis Eoghain) Ireland’s largest peninsula and by the Fanad peninsula on the east. Website design by www.ocularjigsaw.ie. Ι transferred to Joomla!
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Introduction
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. He was a foul-mouthed sailor whose wild behaviour even shocked his less-than-perfect ship-mates. He was a slave trader who had no conscience about buying and selling people for profit. Yet years later this man wrote one of the world’s best loved hymns and inspired a young politician to fight for the abolition of slavery. Is John Newton’s song and describes his dramatic story!
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The Song
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. Below are John Newton's original lyrics. You will notice that the fourth verse in common usage is not listed. "When we've been there 10,000 years." was not written by John Newton but was added at a later date! Read the first verse in other languages here. Amazing Grace (How sweet the sound). That sav'd a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found,. Was blind, but now I see.
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Buncrana
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. Buncrana (Bun Cranncha) is the largest town in Inishowen and the second largest town in County Donegal in the north west of Ireland. Often called The Gateway to Inishowen , Buncrana is a popular tourist resort boasting 5km of sandy beaches. Offering stunning views over the ‘Lake of Shadows’, the path is a perfect place to view Lough Swilly and to be inspired by thoughts of John ...
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The Story
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. He was a foul-mouthed sailor whose wild behaviour even shocked his less-than-perfect ship-mates. He was a slave trader who had no conscience about buying and selling people for profit. Yet years later this man wrote one of the world’s best loved hymns and inspired a young politician to fight for the abolition of slavery. Is John Newton’s song and describes his dramatic story!
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Newton & the fight to abolish Slavery
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. Newton and the fight to abolish slavery. Despite his continued involvement in slavery when he first became a Christian, Newton later rejected the slave trade. He described this "unhappy and disgraceful" trade as contradictory to the "feelings of humanity" and as the "stain of our national character . It took 20 years but finally the first legislation against the Trans-Atlantic S...
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Translations
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. Translations of Amazing Grace. Is binn an fhuaim! A shaor's a shabháil mé,. Bhíos caillte tráth, táim saor ón gcra,. Bhios dall ach chim go glé. Unglaubliche Gnade, wie süß der Klang,. Die einen armen Sünder wie mich errettete! Ich war einst verloren, aber nun bin ich gefunden,. War blind, aber nun sehe ich. La Grâce du Ciel est descendue. Me sauver de l'enfer. Perdido me achou;.
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Newton in Ireland
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. Finally, the wind changed. We saw the island of Tory and the next day anchored in Lough Swilly in Ireland. This was the 8th day of April, just four weeks after the damage we sustained from the sea. When we came into this port, our very last victuals was boiling in the pot; and before we had been there two hours, the wind began to blow with great violence. Ι transferred to Joomla!
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Timeline
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Newton - Sailor and Slave Trader. Newton the Hymn Writer. Newton and the fight to abolish Slavery. Amazing Grace Viewing Point. John Newton is born in London, the son of a merchant seaman. Newton goes to sea at the age of 11. Newton becomes a slave trader off the coast of Sierra Leone, Africa. Newton finally gives up the sea-going life and becomes a Tides' Surveyor in Liverpool. He is exposed to the teaching of preachers like John Wesley who were among the earliest people to oppose the slave trade. Newto...
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