On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
I have to inform you that the religion of the southern states, at this time, is the great supporter, the great sanctioner of the bloody atrocities to which I have referred.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass asserts that the religion practiced in the Southern states actively supports and legitimizes the atrocities of slavery.
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