... centers around the hypocrisy of Southern slave owners. In chapter 9 of his Narrative, Douglass describes his master Captain Auld, who after attending a Methodist camp, became " more cruel and hateful in all his ways a worse man after his conversion than before." (Oxford 59) Captain Auld's religion became his defense for the awful way he treated his slaves - the more he prayed ... entirely reject Christianity, he does not. In the appendix of Narrative he says that the religion he has spoken of negatively is merely the slaveholding religion of the South - a vile practice that does not even...

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