Benjamin Franklin White
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Benjamin Franklin White was a shape note "singing master", and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp. He was born near Cross Keys in Union County, South Carolina, the twelfth ch
Benjamin Franklin White
A historic marker in the town square in Hamilton, Georgia commemorates the life and legacy of B. F. White.
Amazing Grace
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"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779 by the English clergyman John Newton in Olney, Buckinghamshire. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins
Page 53 of Olney Hymns showing the first stanza of the hymn beginning with "Amazing Grace!"
John Newton in his later years
The vicarage in Olney, where Newton wrote the hymn that would become "Amazing Grace"
An 1847 publication of Southern Harmony, showing the title "New Britain" and shape note music.