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Newton has been called hypocritical by some modern writers for continuing to participate in the slave trade while holding strong Christian convictions.

Newton later came to believe that during the first five of his nine years as a slave trader he had not been a Christian in the full sense of the term: " I was greatly deficient in many respects ...

I cannot consider myself to have been a believer in the full sense of the word, until a considerable time later.