Douglass understands that the name he had picked for himself, "Frederick Johnson," is excessively regular. Since "Frederick" is a substantial piece of his personality, Douglass gives Johnson a chance to pick another surname for him; Douglass now formally changes his name to "Frederick Douglass." The solace and wonder of life in New Bedford bewilders Douglass, since he didn 't think such success would have been conceivable without owning slaves. He had erroneously accepted that all non-slaveholders would be as poor as the southerners who couldn 't manage the cost of slaves. Douglass is flabbergasted that New Bedford does not have the desperation that some involvement in the south, and is particularly awed that many free blacks in the north live more easily than a few slaveholders in the south. On his third day around the local area, Douglass looks for some kind of employment stacking oil onto a ship. He can 't make utilization of his artisanal aptitudes, since blacks are taboo from doing caulking work in New Bedford, yet he is in any case satisfied to work. Following a couple of months spent in New Bedford, Douglass starts to peruse the Liberator, the abolitionist daily paper keep running by William Lloyd …show more content…
He battles to the perusers that there is an incredible crevice between the immaculate and serene Christianity of Christ and the degenerate Christianity of slaveholding in America. Douglass explains his comprehension of the false reverence of Southern "Christians" who whip slaves, prostitute female slaves, and take the wages of working slaves while pronouncing Christian estimations of quietude, immaculateness, and excellence. Douglass suggests that the Southern church and slaveholders bolster each other. The congregation acknowledges the slave cash of slaveholders. Douglass cites from the Bible, an abolitionist lyric, and a parodic rendition of a Southern psalm to bolster his contention. Douglass understands that his tone in the body of his account may have taken after a judgment of all religion. The informative supplement is intended to set the record straight: Douglass is not contradicted to all religion; he just disagrees with the religion that