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Frederick Douglass

What is slavery? Why am I a slave? asks. These questions often troubled him for the answers. The standard answer was "God," but this did not satisfy Frederick. He rejected the answer, for it was not possible to reconcile his crude knowledge of goodness and God with the cruel realities of slavery. Throughout his whole narrative we find out the truth of exactly how he feels about slavery and how it all ties in with Christianity. He has several instances and tones in which he talks about his views on all religion.
"What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, ...

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and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. When Frederick was younger he remembers watching from a cupboard one of the women slaves being tied up by their master and then being beaten till there was no flesh left one her body. He remembers being so scared that he stayed in there for fear if he came out, he to would be beaten.
Frederick said "He who proclaims it a religious duty to read the bible denies me that right of learning to read the name of the God who made me. He who is the religious advocate of marriage robs whole millions of its sacred influence, and leaves them to the ravages of wholesome pollution. The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families, -sundering husbands and wives, parents, and children, sisters, and brothers, -leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate." Many of the slaves were left ignorant ...

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Added: 5/1/2008 04:34:43 AM
Category: Biographies
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