While Stowe states the premise clearly, Douglass does more to develop the claim. Douglass gives us an intimate almost documentary style look behind the scenes at the Christianity of the slaveholders. He begins with the verse in Genesis 9:20-27 concerning the cursing of Ham, which slave

By far the greatest support given by Douglass to the claim of a lack of a God for the slaves is his account of the conversion of Thomas Auld. Douglass declares Auld as a "mean man", but states that despite his hopes of improving the character of Auld, religion made him "more cruel and hateful in all his ways." Douglass states that Auld was worse after his conversion than before. Douglass lists the various religious activity of Auld including his being an "instrument of the church in converting many souls." Auld even allowed many slave owning preachers to live on his property who justified not only there owning of slaves, but the brutal beatings with Scripture. These "religonists" surrounded Douglass. They used the pretense of religion to support their cruelty. Rev. Hopkins beat his slave for the smallest offences, believing he would "beat the devil out of them", yet Douglass gives him credit for being one who was not equaled in his "professions of religion" and was very devoted to his family. After Douglass endures this hypocrisy of Auld and then the cruelty of

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