Amazing Grace

John Newton was a notorious ruthless slave captain. He owned a ship that shipped slaves from west Africa to America for profit. He had no God; and he yielded to no one.

While he was sailing the same slave-trade route to America in 1748, his ship encountered a violent storm so violent that he thought that was the end of his life and everything.

During the storm, he heard a soothing voice came from some of his African slaves, a native tune for West African people. Hurriedly, on the back of an envelop, he scrambled the following words:

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind but now I see.

When the storm was over, he sailed back to West Africa and released all his slaves. He later became a strong advocate of anti-slavery in America.

Here is the photo of John Newton.