John Newton's Long Road Home

In 1748, John Newton was a wretch by his own admission — a slave trader, a blasphemer, a young man who had squandered every advantage his devout mother had given him. He had sailed from England full of arrogance, squandered his father's good name, and sunk so low that he found himself starving on the coast of Sierra Leone, practically enslaved himself by a slave dealer's African wife.…