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Frederick Douglass: America's Prophet

D. H. Dilbeck

Print publication date: 2018

Print ISBN-13: 9781469636184

Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: September 2018

DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636184.001.0001

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God and Slavery on the Eastern Shore

God and Slavery on the Eastern Shore

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(p.11) 1 God and Slavery on the Eastern Shore
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Frederick Douglass
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D. H. Dilbeck

Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636184.003.0002

This chapter describes Douglass’s life from his birth until his move to Baltimore as a young child. It describes his exposure both to the religion of local slaves and the proslavery Christianity of local masters. The chapter also details Douglass’s earliest encounters with evil and suffering, and how those encounters shaped the foundation of his religious outlook

Keywords:   Slave Religion, Problem of Evil, Proslavery Christianity, Eastern Shore, Slavery and violence

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