Sentences with phrase «former slave trader»

At the time, I knew several things about Forrest: How the former slave trader and plantation owner rose to the rank of general during the Civil War.

This is evident in every Baptist's favorite hymn, «Amazing Grace,» written by the Anglican Calvinist and former slave trader, John Newton.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

The largest gap, chronologically if not thematically, is between the former slave traders» building at 1315 Duke St. in 1861 and 2017.