A six-part dramatised documentary series
Written and introduced by Evan Jones
Every Sunday, 200 years ago, the rector of St Mary Woolnoth in the City of London used to preach on the same subject - the horrors of the African slave trade.
His congregation had good reason to believe him, for the Rev John Newton had once been the captain of a slave ship.
Here was the terrible truth from the mouth of a slave captain who became a 'hell-fire' preacher. Here was the evidence which led to one of the greatest of all political crusades.
