Passages in the Bible has accepted and affirmed the regulation of slavery, ranging from first Peter 2:18, “Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust” to Colossians 3:22, “Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eyeservice, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord”. However, slave owners were highly selective on what scriptures were applicable to their circumstances. In the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, the author tends to criticize in tangents on the dissimulation of slave owner rhetoric that revered Biblical texts, yet perpetuate the obscenities in slavery from physical abuse to severe punishments with the inclusion of certain characters such as Thomas Auld, whom cruelty exacerbated after Methodist camp training, and the infamous antagonist Edward Covey. Specifically, in Chapter 10, Douglass reprimanded his overseer at the time, Edward Covey, “I do verily believe that he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief, that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God”. Covey garnered the notorious reputation of breaking young negroes, harshly whipping for surface reasons (e.g. discomfiture), while praying instantly in the morning and taking time to construct a well-thought…