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Analysis Of 'Mr. Auld' By Fredrick Douglass

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Throughout the book, Douglass shares his experiences to show how the white slave owners abused the bible. The slave owners who participated in religious activities were the ones who treated slaves the worst. Douglass had a slave owner named Mr. Auld who possessed cruel, hypocritical characteristics. Mr. Auld was a discriminative man that did not allow his slaves to have a freedom of religion. During Douglass’s time with Mr. Auld, Douglass attended a Sabbath school which taught slaves how to read the bible. However, the group was brutally dismayed because Mr. Auld did not want slaves to learn scriptures. Mr. Auld’s house was known as the house of prayer because he allowed four prayers in his house daily. He prayed frequently throughout the day,
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