
John Newton was a troubled young man with a violent temper and a penchant for vulgarity that literally made his fellow sailors blush. Whipped for desertion and sold into slavery, it seemed his life would end early in a West African grave...until he was rescued by a ship captain sent by his father. Following a powerful conversion experience during a storm at sea, Newton would eventually become a pastor in the Church of England and the writer of several of the church's most beloved hymns, including "Amazing Grace".

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as Aminata

as Older Samuel Watson

as Tribesman

as Elizabeth Scatliffe Newton

as Bar Wench

as Captain Philip Carteret

as Old John Newton

as Young Samuel Watson

as Mr. Chapman

as Billy Prowse

as Captain Phelps

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