Fredrick Douglas in the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave clearly exposes and argues the south slave holders’ wrong definition of Christianity and biblical teaching in the way that favors the institution of slavery as a given from GOD as “the white man’s power to enslave the Blackman.” (364) As Douglas clearly explains the misinterpretation of biblical “God cursed Ham” (342) theology, he challenges that “[even] if the lineal descendants of Ham are alone to be scripturally” to be considered the black race and be enslaved, “the slavery of the south” that constitutes the “different-looking class of people “(342) of the mixture of black and white (like Douglass himself) is “unscriptural” (342) to be enslaved and should be free from slavery.
In the narrative, Douglass portrays different characters as evidences to testify against slaveholders’ purposely dissimulated Christianity teaching in order to enslave and treat blacks inhumanely. He uses Mrs. Auld’s character in the theme as an example to represent how the influence of false