It is because I love this religion that I hate the slaveholding, the woman-whipping, the mind-darkening, the soul-destroying religion that exists in the southern states of America.
Douglass powerfully contrasts his cherished ideal of true religion with the hypocritical and oppressive practices of slaveholding Christianity in the American South.
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