What factors could have led Frederick Douglass to reach the conclusion that the Civil War was proof that God condemned America for the sin of...

The factors
that most likely led Douglass to this conclusion were:

• The fact
  that he himself had been a slave.  Of course, people who were not slaves could believe that
  slavery was evil.  But Douglass had first hand experience of how evil slavery was.  This would
  lead him to believe that America should be punished for...