Slavery Against Religion Slavery has been the stitch in American history and oddly enough religion has been used to justify the practice of slave owners. Slaveholders used the religious example of Ham, a son of Noah, who was supposed to be cursed and his ancestors cursed for seeing Noah naked. The southern peoples argued that Ham was the forefather of those people brought from Africa and that it was necessary for them to enslave these …showed first 75 words of 752 total…

…showed last 75 words of 752 total…to justify their wretched actions toward people and in doing so also created a major dilemma contrasting with their practices on Sunday at their worship services. Douglass does a good job of pointing these practices out and in such a great number as to not be able to contain them all in this paper. Point by point Frederick makes a solid argument to dispel the myths of religion to excuse slavery and all its cruelties.