When he got to Britain, he fully agreed with evangelical Christianity’s teachings.Īfter going back to England in 1750, he became the captain of two ships that traded slaves. During this trip, he had a spiritual change that led him to become an evangelical Christian.ĭuring his trip on the “Greyhound,” he read religious books, like the Bible, to pass the time.
To get back to England, he got on the “Greyhound,” a merchant ship that carried beeswax and dyer’s wood. In 1748, a sea captain saved him after his father asked him to. He and other slaves of Princess Pete were all beaten and tortured. Since he gave the crew of the “Pegasus” a lot of trouble, he was sent to South Africa with a slave trader named Amos Clowe, who gave him to his wife, an African duchess named Princess Pete.
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The ship was full of goods and slaves that were going to be sold in England and other places. When the “HMS Harwich” was on its way to India, he was moved to the “Pegasus,” a slave ship that was headed to South Africa. But he got over being embarrassed before either of those things happened. He even thought about ending his own life and wanted to jump into the sea. He felt bad about himself because of the punishment, so he wanted to kill the captain. He was stripped to his waist and made a seaman, which is a lower rank. For this, he was punished in front of 350 crew members. He was made a midshipman on the ship “HMS Harwich.”ĭuring his time in the Royal Navy, he tried to get away but failed. In 1743, he was captured by the Royal Navy while he was visiting some of his friends. His father wanted him to work on a sugar plantation, but he chose to sail on a merchant ship instead. When he was eleven, his father took him to the ocean.īefore his father stopped working in 1742, he had been on six trips with him. Then he went to a school where kids live in dorms. He later moved to Aveley, where he lived with his father and his new wife. At age six, he lost his mother to tuberculosis. John Newton was born in Wapping, London, to shipmaster John Newton Sr.
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