Enslaved people regarded religious masters as the worst masters
Evidence
Reflecting back across his life, Douglass concluded solemnly: “Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.” — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 250
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Theological blessing of slavery severed slaveholders’ natural moral impulses — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 251; Religious conversion made slaveholders more cruel, not less — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 246; Enslaved people claimed the masters’ own ideals more seriously than their masters did (+3 more)