It was not merely the agency of Master Thomas, in breaking up and destroying my Sabbath school, that shook my confidence in the power of southern religion to make men wiser or better; but I saw in him all the cruelty and meanness, after his conversion, which he had exhibited before he made a profession of religion.
Douglass explains how his master's continued cruelty, even after a religious conversion, exposed the hollowness of Southern Christianity.
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