Douglas Was a Strong Christian and a Good Writer

Douglas was a strong christian and saw the ways in which scripture was being used by some to keep slaves repressed. This hypocrisy displayed by plantation owners who professed to be christian became a central component of his anti slavery lectures. He started trading bread to poor white boys that he ran into while completing errands for the alts, in exchange for vocabulary and spelling lessons from them. As you can see, as an orator and as a writer, douglas was not given to understatement. And that was one of he things that he was known for is he said things the way that he saw em, even if it made people uncomfortable,. Even if the language can strike you as