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Post by rebeccapl116 on Jan 24, 2013 20:09:50 GMT -5
I found it interesting that Troy describes the Devil as a "white fellow" (15).
It obviously says something about his view of white people. I also got to thinking about how Douglass thought the white man's Catholicism was a perversion of the bible. Does this quote speak to that idea?
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Post by jingyanxi116 on Jan 26, 2013 14:04:46 GMT -5
I think they are slightly different ideas. Douglass knows clearly that white man's Catholicism and actual Catholicism are two different things. By describing the Devil as a white fellow, Troy seems to be mixing the two, and looks down on Catholicism altogether. It seems like he means it more in the sense that white people are 'bad', and therefore the devil is a white fellow, not that there are two separate forms of the religion.
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