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Appendix: Religion and Slaveholding
Douglass clarifies that his condemnation of religion in the preceding pages targets the hypocrisy of 'slaveholding religion,' not Christianity itself, and closes with a quoted indictment of complicit clergy and a parodied hymn mocking slaveholders' professed piety.
Distinction between "slaveholding religion" and ChristianityIndictment of complicit clergy and churchesA quoted verse on clerical hypocrisyThe parodied hymn on "heavenly union"