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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass And Religion

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Frederick Douglass is a great orator. And he is also known for being a great abolitionist. His work details his life experiences as a former slave and states his theory on slavery whis literature. In the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” he talks about how religion and the Bible had a effect on slavery. In the narrative, Douglass introduces himself by sharing his place of birth and also his age. Douglass states that he cannot verify this information because as a slave, he was kept ignorant of this information. In the text, he explains the deficiency of knowledge slaves had due to their masters and slaveholders. The slaveholders would keep slaves uneducated to keep them from striving for freedom. Douglass tries to show the explanation …show more content…

Due to its large popularity, people including slaves started to practice Christianity. Douglass states that there was Christianity in accordance to Christ and Christianity in accordance to the American community. He depicts Christianity as the pure, peaceable, and balanced Christianity of Christ. “I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, woman whipping, cradle plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land”(Douglass Appendix 1). What Douglass is trying to say is that slaveholders do not intend any goodness. It is hypocritical to practice the Christianity of Christ when the slaveholders put the slaves through excessive amounts of labor without a sufficient amount of food or rest, beating, along with murdering without consequence. He also shows the relevance between the slave masters who did or did not practice religion. The non-religious masters and slaveholders we're not as cruel or bitter than the religious slaveholders. The question that began to surface is why some people would act this way under the Christian belief. The idea of how starving, beating, and killing a person could be

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