Walker specifically addresses this point when he writes that "God rules the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth, having his ears continually open to the cries, tears, and groans of his oppressed people; and being a just and holy Being will at one day appear fully in behalf of the oppressed." Thus, Walker's passage suggests that he knows that slave owners see God in a different way than slaves do, in addition to acknowledging that slaves believe this position to be false. Further, Walker goes on to suggest that the God of the slaves is not only opposite of this God, but is also the God of uprising and the end of slavery.

Unlike the slave owners, who understood the concept of slavery as being ordained by God as a benefit to the slaves, slaves understood the concept as a trial and tribulation through which they would...
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