Religion is a part of why many of the slaves did not run away. Many whites made slaves think what they were doing were righteous by twisting what the bible said in their own words to justify enslaving them. When many of the slaves did not have anybody to turn to or trust they would always trust in the word of God. "Will not a righteous God visit for these things? (Douglass, p. 93) The slaves followed what the slaveholder told them to do because the slaves were scared and God was the only person could confine in and he was telling them to follow the white man's rules and laws. This made it hard for many of the slaves to really do anything and made slavery go on for so long. Many slaves did not understand why god would allow this to happen? Many
