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BONUS: The True Story of "Amazing Grace" (John Newton)
Everyone knows the legend: a brutal slave trader has a dramatic conversion in a storm, quits the trade, and writes "Amazing Grace" as a changed man. The truth is harder, and in the end more full of grace.
This is a bonus drop, the audio of my new long-form documentary on the real story of John Newton and the hymn he wrote. He went back to slaving after his conversion. He captained slave ships for years, after the storm, after "the hour I first believed." He left the trade because his health gave out, not his conscience, and he kept his money in it long after. He didn't take a public stand…
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