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In both of the writings by Douglass and Stowe, the question is raised concerning the existence of God. On page 1790 while watching the sails of the ships on Chesapeake Bay Douglass cries out for God to save him and grant him freedom and then states, "Is there any ....

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.... concerning the cursing of Ham, which slaveholders used as Scriptural proof that American slavery was right. Even the foundation principles of the slaveholders Christianity were built on a false premise- the misinterpretation of an obscure passage of the Bible. Douglass continues to support the claim when he describes his experience with the Aulds concerning learning to read. Those "who proclaim it a religious duty to read the Bible" denied him "the right of learning to read the name of the God who made" him. Mr. Auld stopped his wife from teaching Douglass to read because it would "spoil" him, make him "discontented and unhappy", make him "unmanage ....