In Chapter 9, Douglass becomes the property of Captain Auld. Douglass hopes the man's religious devotion will make him kind to his slaves, but it seems to have the opposite effect. How does Captain Auld justify his cruelty towards his slaves? Give a specific example.
In America today, it is unlikely that any Christian would also support slavery. How did Captain Auld -- and many Christian slaveholders -- do this in the past?
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Generally Captain Auld was a mean man. Frederick tells us that he gets even more mean after his conversion. It seems to me that Captain Auld way to justify his cruelty towards his slaves is to feed them more than he did before. And furthermore he tries to justify his cruelty towards his slaves by openning his new found religous beliefs to his slaves
Fredrick states that in the hands of Captain Auld he usually well when he use to live with him a while back they didn't get enough food now they giving him to much food. He said that his old/new master was the meanest man ever. An every chance he would try some new religion he was going by on his slaves.
on page 69 Fredrick was telling us how he baet him. and cut he had got from from the beating. and not get enough food and now he see that he is a mean man towards his slaves and don't care anything about them.
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