... any of the slaves for whatever reason disobeyed their slave master commands, they would receive severe punishment that usually resulted in severe whipping and brutally, bloody, bodily harm. In Frederic Douglass's dramatic autobiography Narrative of the Life written by him, clearly show how religion was used to work in a harmful way towards slavery. In this paper I will show the negative effect ... someone who is considered a religious person as a whole is thought to have a positive outlook, during the times of slavery, it proved to have the opposite effect. I will also show how Douglass...

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