Who is the original writer of Amazing Grace?

Answer 1

Yes, it is ! A new movie came out concerning the slave movement in England. It's called Amazing Grace & I HIGHLY recommend this movie ! Not only is it a neat film but it explains how England banned slavery and what steps William Wilberforce had to take to accomplish this law. sincerely, Bethany

It was written by an Englishmen not a American not A Scotsmen not and Irishmen.

Answer 2

The words were written by ex-slave trader John Newton, who was born in London on 24 July 1725. His father was commander of a merchant ship, and young John followed in his footsteps. After his father died, Newton joined the crew on the H.M.S. Hartwich, but deserted after he found the living conditions deplorable. He was recaptured, flogged and demoted from midshipman to common seaman.

After this, Newton spent some time on a slave-trader's ship, learning the trade, and eventually commanding his own trade in slavery. His conversion occurred during a violent storm at sea on 10 May 1748. From then on, he was a changed man, ultimately leaving his sea-going days behind him, and studying to become a minister. He was ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln and given the curacy of Olney, Buckinghamshire. "Amazing Grace" was written whilst he was at Olney, most probably between 1760 and 1770. He could now understand that God's love is for every man and Jesus had paid the price through his death on the cross for every sin he had ever committed. Incidentally, Newton did not write the music, only the words. The origin of the music is unknown, and there have been several speculations about the music. One is that it might have been based on a melody sung by the slaves themselves.

Newton and William Wilberforce eventual prevailed in seeing that slavery was abolished in the British empire in 1833, 32 years before it was finally abolished in the United States in 1865 by the 13 Amendment.

Answer 3

"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn written by English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725-1807) published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption is possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, "Amazing Grace" is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world.

Answer 4

When it was originally written, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton. The hymnbooks did not contain music and were simply small books of religious poetry. The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns(London, 1808), where it is set to the tune "Hephzibah" by English composer John Jenkins Husband. Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes; more than twenty musical settings of "Amazing Grace" circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named "New Britain", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies ("Gallaher" and "St. Mary") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw (Cincinnati, 1829). As neither tune is attributed and both show elements of oral transmission, scholars can only speculate that they are possibly of British origin.

"Amazing Grace", with the words written by Newton and joined with "New Britain", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

Answer 5

British poet and Anglican minister John Henry Newton(July 24, 1725 - December 21, 1807), was the original writer of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace." It was first published in 1779.

Answer 6

No, Englishman John Newton wrote the song. Newton had formerly been the captain of a slave-trading ship but later became instrumental in encouraging the abolition of the practice.

Answer 7

"Amazing Grace" was penned while its writer, John Newton, was curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, most probably between 1760 and 1770.

Answer 8

John Newton

Answer 9

John Newton