On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
If it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways; for I believe him to have been a much worse man after his conversion than before.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways; for I believe him to have…”
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Douglass asserts that his master's religious conversion paradoxically made him more cruel and hateful, worsening his character.
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