T-shirt, Mr Gates is as much a character in the television films as the characters he discusses: King Solomon or Don Francisco de Souza, Ivory Coast's most notorious slavetrader.
Steve Turner's book Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song tells the story of composer John Newton's conversion from slavetrader to abolitionist, and traces the evolution of the song from its composition in 1772 as a hymn with no set tune to the version familiar today.