Douglass published his anti-Christianity appendix the same year the Southern Baptist Convention formed

Evidence

The idyllic portrait painted by Manly, however, was at serious odds with the experience of white Christianity by enslaved people themselves. In the same year the Southern Baptist Convention was founded under Manly’s leadership, Frederick Douglass published the first of his three autobiographies, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written when Douglass was in his late twenties, the book gained a wide American and transatlantic audience and served as an important spark to the growing abolitionist movement and to Douglass’s prominence as a leader. At the end of the book, Douglass has an entire appendix dedicated to a scathing description of his experience of American Christianity. This passage, which has not received as much public attention as it deserves, is worth quoting at length: I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where [sic] surround me. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 243

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Southern Baptist Convention was founded specifically to defend slaveholding Christianity. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 17; A Southern Baptist minister architecturally founded a denomination over slavery — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 104

Broader Connections

• The Southern Baptist Convention was founded specifically to defend slaveholding Christianity. #corroborates (0.85) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 17
• A Southern Baptist minister architecturally founded a denomination over slavery #expands (0.75) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 104