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1) Freedom
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward, and his family escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guides the family on their journey north to Canada. Over 100 years earlier, in 1748, Captain John Newton is about to set off across the sea with a ship full of slaves. Both men are having struggles of faith...
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of William Wilberforce--his passion and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th Century--and the people, including the minister who pushed him to pursue it to the end--John Newton, a reformed slave ship captain who wrote the hymn "Amazing grace."
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of John Newton a rebelious young man who is cut off from his family and torn from the woman he loves, to serve His Majesty's navy. Despair leads him to the deepest levels of bitterness. Money becomes his god, sensuality becomes his mistress and the chains of depravity take him to the darkest parts of his own heart.
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