What behaviors and actions did slaveholders use Christianity to justify and how does Douglass effectively point out their hypocrisy. Give evidence from the text
Southerners often defended slavery by claiming they were bringing Christianity to slaves but Douglass, a devout Christian, saw the clear hypocrisy of this statement.
Sunday was my only leisure time. I spent this in a sort of beast-like stupor, between sleep and wake, under some large tree. At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished. I sank down again, mourning over my wretched condition. I was sometimes prompted to take my life, and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear. My sufferings on this plantation seem now like a dream rather than a stern reality. Ch 10
