 Newton returned in 1748 to Liverpool, a major port for the Triangle Trade.Partly due to the influence of his father's friend Joseph Manesty, he obtained a position as first mate aboard the slave ship "Brownlow," bound for the West Indies via the coast of Guinea.It was when returning to England aboard the ship "Greyhound" in 1748, [he] awoke to find the ship caught in a violent storm and about to sink.