When the ship is there, it is thought desirable, she should take as many as possible. Newton argued that it was important to have as many slaves as possible on board the slave-ship: "With our ships, the great object is, to be full. But these actions, I hope, and believe, are not common." There have been instances of unprincipled captains, who, at the close of what they supposed their last voyage, and when they had no intention of revisiting the coast, have detained, and carried away, free people with them and left the next ship, that should come from the same port, to risk the consequences. Sometimes, when goods are lent, or trusted on shore, the trader voluntarily leaves a free person, perhaps his own son, as a hostage, or pawn, for the payment and, in case or default, the hostage is carried off, and sold which, however hard upon him, being in consequence of a free stipulation, cannot be deemed unfair. Newton later explained: "The slaves, in general, are bought, and paid for. He later recalled that he was based in Sierra Leone "for the purpose of purchasing and collecting slaves, to sell to the vessels that arrived from Europe." A few years later he became a crew member of a slave-ship. At the age of eleven he went to sea with his father. In 1733 Newton was sent to a boarding-school at Stratford. His father remarried after his mother's death, but John did not enjoy a good relationship with his stepmother. His mother died of tuberculosis when John was only six. John Newton was born on 24th July 1725 in Wapping.
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