A biography of a niche personality with a big influence. An unsettled youth who became a sailor then captain on slave ships, and a slave himself at one stage. Get's God. Then wants to become a Church of England clergyman much to the snooty disdain of the Bishops. Meets Wesley, George Whitfield, William Cowper,Pitt, and Wilberforce. He was a big influence on Church music, children in church, the English church revival, and of course- on the abolishion of slavery. His is shadowed by his guilt of his violent and sexually abusing slaving years. But he is aware of the forgiveness he receives from Jesus. And he seeks to make practical amends too.
This book is easy to read. But the author has done serious research here, and the book has a good devotional side effect for readers that are interested.