In the appendix of his narrative, Douglass makes a point that he is not "an opponent" of religion, but rather he thinks that the slaveholding religion that the masters practiced was wrong. But despite what Douglass mentions in his appendix, slave masters' religion is very questionable during the 19th Century. In other words, Douglass indirectly places questions about the whites' Christianity in his readers' heads. For example, his readers may think, "How could a good and Almighty God allow all of these beatings and deaths among the slaves? Or How could He let the masters turn to Him and allow them to justify their actions? Or If there was a God there, why didn't He stop slavery?" What the masters believed in was false, and the real religion was what the slaves believed in.

"It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I

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