Frederick Douglass And Christianity Analysis

Frederick Douglass had strong views on Christianity. Frederick spoke about many slaveholders who were religious and used it to be barbaric. Captain Thomas Auld, one of Douglass’s masters, attended a church in Maryland and became a “pious” man, who used his new religion, Christianity, to be even more vicious and brutal towards his slaves. He believed that if a slave master was a man of Christianity he was automatically more full of hate towards slaves than a non-religious slaveholder. “...I, therefore hate the corrupt slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land… I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of frauds, and the grossest of all libels.”
Of course, Douglass doesn’t seem like he would be a very religious man considering his open distaste for Christianity but The Narrative Of Frederick Douglass had included symbols referring to the traditional African religion. Douglass was so close they considered each other family with the other slaves, he even said he thought that they would all rather die than be separated or put each other into danger. Sandy Jenkins is a huge part of Frederick’s experience with the accustomed African religion. Douglass was afraid of being subjected to Covey’s wrath and Sandy gave Douglass a root that supposedly would keep him from harm 's way for as long as he kept it with him. He was skeptical, but after his too good to be true good luck he believed in Sandy’s root. When I think of Frederick Douglass I think of all of his many strengths, the list seems to be endless. Even while Douglass was imprisoned because of his race and forced into slavery, he never stopped trying to do everything he could to get educated. He had so much willpower to learn everything he could, he surpassed the willpower of most of my fellow classmates by a long shot. Frederick was also forbearing with trying to learn how to read and write, he learned little each day whatever way he could and never grew impatient. He was solicitous towards anyone in harm 's way. He regarded every story of another slave getting whipped with such sadness and sympathy. Frederick Douglass knew how to open the reader’s eyes to see what extent of wrong slavery was. …show more content…
He drew me into his narrative with informing the reader of everything from whipping to being separated from your mother when you were an infant, not having a last name or even a birthday. Slavery in a synopsis is being taken from your family to work without pay, without necessities like proper clothes and food, and being maltreated for little to nothing. Many enslaved women were raped by the masters, Douglass’s mother being an example. They had to bear children, who they didn’t get to see after they were born, by a man they despised.
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass was filled with metaphors, stories and anything to draw the reader in. He used dates and quotes to remind you this is real and not some horror story, this is actually what people went through at one point in time. He captivated the attention of the reader with his heart-wrenching personal stories, and the stories that were more humorous. He put you in his shoes, describing the different aspects of his life as a slave. He was well educated, especially for a slave and you saw that in his literature, which totally defeat the absent minded thinking of slaveholders. The North took Douglass for surprised. He grew up thinking that you were only wealthy if you owned slaves, but when he arrived in New Bedford he found that the people there were not poor as he had assumed. New Bedford had wealthy residents who didn’t own slaves, they had other ways to make their income. The people he met in New Bedford were intelligent, rather well kept and not at all like the people from where he had come from. New Bedford may have had their fair share of good people but there was a few that are excluded. You couldn’t run from racism, even New Bedford had racist people. Douglass always wanted to learn, he knew his master’s thought that an ignorant slave was a good slave. He was angered that