John Newton, the slave trader who wrote "Amazing Grace," has been boiled down to ... We both hope to promote the kind of history that delights readers, stays faithful to the facts, and draws ...

Written by a White man who’d prospered from an ungodly and monstrous slave trade, the earnest and honest “Amazing Grace” reached the suffering hearts of enslaved people. Walvin notes that Newton wrote ...

The words of the well-known hymn were first delivered in the Buckinghamshire market town of Olney People are being encouraged to sing Amazing Grace on ... lecturer in history at Anglia Ruskin ...

Sometimes scribes wrote private jokes into tax documents. In one ancient papyrus fragment I located in Berlin, a secretary inserted enslaved people back into a history text from ... Barbara Garson ...

I didn’t deserve their pity. I had never shown any to them. I wrote a letter to my father asking for help and he immediately sent a ship, called the Greyhound, to rescue me. There was a fierce ...

The Rev John Newton wrote it in 1773 ... development and history of the famous hymn Amazing Grace, still sung today by a wide variety of musicians and choirs." Funded by Hull Maritime, this ...

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At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

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Instinctually I was like, this feels amazing. So I played it for a few people ... There's an older song that I wrote with Jessie J called “Personal” that I always really love.