Frederick Douglass What is slavery? Why am I a slave? Frederick Douglass asks. These questions often troubled him for the answers. The standard answer was "God," but this did not satisfy Frederick. He rejected the answer, for it was not possible to reconcile his crude knowledge of goodness and God with the cruel realities of slavery. Throughout his whole narrative we find out the truth of exactly how he feels about slavery and how it all ties in with Christianity. He has several instances and tones in which he talks about his views on all religion. "What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and wi