Frederick Douglass: “This was proof to us that he was willing to give up all to God, and…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

This was proof to us that he was willing to give up all to God, and for the sake of God, and not to do this was, in our estimation, an evidence of hard-heartedness, and was wholly inconsistent with the idea of genuine conversion.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

Douglass explains that enslaved people viewed the refusal to emancipate as proof of a slaveholder's hard-heartedness and a contradiction to true religious conversion.

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Frederick Douglass: “This was proof to us that he was willing to give up all to God, and for the sake of God, and not to do this was, in our…”

Editor's note · Context