"Amazing Grace"–Americans' favorite hymn according to the Gallup Poll–was written by the former captain of a slave ship. That "wretch," John Newton, eventually became an Anglican minister and worked to abolish the slave trade.
"Amazing Grace"–Americans' favorite hymn according to the Gallup Poll–was written by the former captain of a slave ship. That "wretch," John Newton, eventually became an Anglican minister and worked to abolish the slave trade.