Summary: The Ironic Role Of Religion

The Ironic Role of Religion in Southern Slaveholding Culture According to Frederick Douglass In Frederick Douglass’s narrative, he demonstrates the ironic role of religion in southern slaveholding culture. Douglass further explains, in immense detail, in the appendix of his narrative that there is great hypocrisy within the slaveholders and their view on religion. Also in his appendix, he explains that, though most of the instances in which he mentioned religion were in negative tones, he was speaking of slaveholding religion, not of proper Christianity (Douglass 100). As for slaveholding religion, Douglass gives various examples of the hypocrisy he was subjected to, and the various ways in which slaveholders would incorrectly use religion.