‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race ...
Why John Newton’s famous hymn failed to win, place, or show. For a number of years, John Newton pastored the Anglican church in Olney, a lace-making town about 50 miles northwest of London. His ...
This enormous, in some ways groundbreaking, anthology shows the range and depth of verse about the captivity, enslavement and sometime freedom of peoples of African descent in the English-speaking ...