SOME SONGS DO NOT FEEL LIKE PRAISE BECAUSE THEY ARE BUILT ON THE WRONG ENERGY...SUCH AS AMAZING GRACE.. John Newton a slave ship captain who wrote Amazing grace, as a Christian while making slave trade excursions. He testified before parliament saying some captains used thumb screws, he himself used them on children. John Henry Newton (24 July 1725 O.S. – 21 December 1807) was an English sailor and Anglican clergyman. Starting his career at sea, at a young age, he became involved with the slave trade for a few years.. After experiencing a religious conversion, he became a minister, hymn-writer, and later a prominent supporter of the abolition of slavery. He was the author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken." The regime of violence and terror that went hand in hand with the business of the slave trade was not the anomalous enigma but rather the tenacious norm of the slave institution while the slave resistance to this inhuman treatment was commendable and extraordinarily creative. Many rebellious slaves were chained to the outer side of the slave ships to become bait and food for the sharks, some were thrown over board and some jumped to their deaths in order to escape the harsh treatment of slavery. The middle passage produced an indifferent form of abuse, which produced many psychologically unstable mental thorns within the slaves, thus having pessimistically influenced the health and the mentality of the slaves for generations to come.
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