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ARIZONA TODAY
LYLE J. RAPACKI, Ph.D.
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COMMENTARY AND PERSONAL REMARKS
BY LYLE J. RAPACKI, Ph.D.
Host and Commentator
February the 27th, 2022
The author of Amazing Grace was a slave trader named John Newton. Stemming from a very troubled childhood, and with his mom dying when he was only six years old, John Newton understandably became adverse to any authority, and understood brutality. Self-serving and concerned only about profit for himself, John became a slave ship master in his late twenties bringing slaves from Africa to England. He cared less about their humanity, per his own testimony, and cared far more about profit.
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