it was necessary to pray in abundance to be forgiven for these sins.
             The Christian religion does not support the horrid acts depicted by Douglass in his narrative. In order to spread the word about abolition, Douglass focused on a topic that would enrage many people: the deception of the Christian religion. Douglass described the religion of the slave lands as, "...a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, a justifier for the most appalling barbarity, a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds..." (Douglass 82). The crooked slaveholders practiced Christianity in the most deceitful fashion. They preached one thing yet exercised another. Slaves were beaten day after day for no reason significant enough to be lashed with a leather whip. There is no justification, including the practice of Christianity, for the barbaric treatment given to the slaves. In fact, one can say, and Douglass does, that the religion of the slave land is an imposter (Douglass 105). It reveals no similarities of the faith and should be stripped of the false
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