Out of Slavery: The Journey to Amazing Grace (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Out of Slavery Previously published under title: Amazing grace.
Full description- Publisher: Tundra Books
- Published: 15 May 2011
- Format: Hardback 40 pages
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- Categories: Music | History
- ISBN 13: 9780887769153 ISBN 10: 0887769152
- Sales rank: 1,120,127
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Brief But Power Kids' Bio of John Newton
Reason for Reading: I love Linda's other two book's which are based on the stories of poems and the lives of the authors. I was intrigued to hear the story of the man who wrote the legendary hymn "Amazing Grace".
This is a beautiful book, both visually and the story it has to tell. First of all, even though this is a picture book, it is not for small children. The recommended age is 9-12 and I'd add anyone over 12 as well. The story is intense. John Newton lived in cruel times and he participated in them as much as anyone else did. This book brought home to me how much we human beings are a product of our times, no matter how "good" one thinks oneself to be. Ms. Granfield does not hold back on any of the cruelty of the slave trade, and we are talking the British colonial slave trade here, but she does not resort to graphic detail, she does not need to. The simple truth and brief glances are more than enough to convey this horrid piece of history, while the haunting paintings only add to the reality.
John Newton comes across as a "nice" man, even a "good man" of his era. Here we see moral relativism in action. He is certainly a "better" slave trader than most of his contemporaries, not crowding his ships, while others filled their ships with "cargo", he called them "men" & "women" and perhaps this had something to with his own fifteen months he spent kidnapped and serving as a slave himself in the West Indies or his own religious beliefs he was brought up with. It was this life, his own suffering, the suffering he saw and the suffering he caused that turned him into an evangelical minister and writer of hymns, including the most well-known hymn in the world to all denominations, Amazing Grace. A poignant, hard-hitting story which will make the hymn even more meaningful to its singers once they know how it came to be. This book will be a keeper for my shelves. by Nicola Mansfield
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