Lee's positive experience of the Christian religion, are the collection of readings of Frederick Douglas, Peter Randolph and the former slave interviewed by BA Botkin on their memories of their negative experience of the Christian religion religion. Frederick Douglas was an African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist. After escaping slavery in Maryland, he became the national leader of the African American abolitionist movement in the fight to end slavery. He considered Christianity to be in a bad situation because, in his opinion, it is the driving force in keeping African Americans enslaved to their owners. According to the book in the Frederick Douglas reading section “An Account of the Life of Frederick Douglas, American Slave” he stated, “that Southern religion is a mere cover for the most horrible crimes… I should consider being a master's slave religious the greatest calamity that could happen to me. For all slave owners... religious slave owners are the