On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
If religion had any effect on his character at all, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If religion had any effect on his character at all, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass observes that for some slaveholders, religious conversion perversely intensified their cruelty rather than softening it.
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