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It was to take him out of the category of heathenism and make it inconsistent to hold him a slave, for the Bible made only the heathen a proper subject for slavery.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It was to take him out of the category of heathenism and make it inconsistent to hold him a slave, for the Bible made…”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that baptism would fundamentally change the status of Negroes, making slavery inconsistent with Christian beliefs.
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