Frederick Douglass

Part I of Essay
What is slavery? Why am I a slave? asks. These questions often troubled him for the answers. The standard answer was "God," but this did not satisfy Frederick. He rejected the answer, for it was not possible to reconcile his crude knowledge of goodness and God with the cru ....

Part II of Essay
.... peaceful, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. When Frederick was younger he remembers watching from a cupboard one of the women slaves being tied up by their master and then being beaten till there was no flesh left one her body. He remembers being so scared that he stayed in there for fear if he came o ....