It makes no difference whether the slaveholder worships the God of the Christians, or is a follower of Mahomet, he is the minister of the same cruelty, and the author of the same misery.
Douglass argues that the cruelty and misery inflicted by slaveholders are consistent, irrespective of their religious beliefs.
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