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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with Dr. Anika Prather

The Classical Mind

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The Cognitive Dissonance of Religion

There is no me without you yeah the way I enter into that relationship and live into that relationship really matters in terms of shaping me. You see that with a kovie character yes where maybe at one point there was some humanity in him but over timeYeah he had to suppress that and stamp it down and kill it in order to continue doing what he's doing. He says religion actually actually makes enslavement worse so Thomas all of one of his other owners converted to Christianity, once he became a devout Christian is when he became worse as a owner.

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