How Does Frederick Douglass Use Religion

Douglass was a formal slave and an influential black American who told many stories about his experiences as being a slave. He was not treated like an wild animal unlike the other slaves; who were not looked at like human beings. According to Frederick Douglass in his narrative “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, he had many comments specifically about the ironic role of religion in southern slaveholding culture in chapter XI. This raises the following question, what was Douglass thoughts and feelings about the whole situation of being a slave. A second question would be, did Douglass get traumatized after seeing the slaves getting whipped while the masters enjoyed hitting them. Although the masters blamed their wrong being on the slaves, the slaves deserved to be treated differently. One should consider freedom, respect, and happiness. First, a handful of slaves use religion to make it okay to do wrong to others; however, that does not make it right to do wrong to someone because of an religion you believe in. Everybody deserve to be treated fairly. It do not matter who you are, what you look like, or even where you come from. For example, The ground for his refusal was a failure on my part (Douglass 62). The master failure has nothing …show more content…
The masters would find any reason to whip the slaves because of their enjoyment; however, Douglass still believed that the masters were good people at heart and that was not their true colors. Most people have a little care in their heart, even when it seems as if they are the rudest person you have ever met. I, however, can see very little good resulting from such a course, either to themselves or the slaves escaping (Douglass 60). There is little hope that the outcome after being slaves would be worth living. Therefore, anything could happen at this point and they would expect it to be worse because of their