According to The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, what is the role of the church in slavery?

In
Douglass' mind, if the church does not speak out in an active and defiant way about slavery,
then it is as responsible as those who profit from it.  Douglass is quick to point out that
there is a difference between "true" Christianity and a more "false" view of
it.  The "true" essence of Christianity, of which he is a believer, is one that would
denounce the practice of slavery in the strongest of terms.  There is little that can be
reconciled between a valid expression of Christianity and the enslavement of...