One of the central themes of the abolitionist movement is simple: the humanity of the slaves. These were very obviously human beings in every aspect of biology, yet they were treated as animals, sometimes even less than the livestock. In Walker's letter, he states the slaves in the United States were the most "degraded, wretched, and abject" …show more content…
Slavers used the Bible to justify their oppression of people of color, but David Walker asks where in the Bible were slaves treated as animals, that even the Egyptians did not treat their slaves as badly as Americans did. He calls into question the morals of these so-called Christians, as Christianity was a religion of love and peace. There was no love and peace in the institution of slavery, only hate and brutality. Fredrick Douglas summed it simply with the phrase that slavery was "the great sin and shame of America," as he denounced slavery and its brutality and