... and the south. Abolitionists in the north used religion as a basis for condemning slavery. In the south, however, religion was used as a tool to sanction slavery. In the narrative, Frederick Douglass evinces how religion was used as a sanction to beat slaves and, in the "Appendix," describes his feelings of true Christianity while labeling the slaveholding religion as fraud. Throughout the narrative ... religion would restrain his master's cruelty and maybe enlighten him to the point of emancipation. Contrarily, religion intensified the malicious acts of slaveholders. When Master Auld at...

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