Explain the evidence Douglass offers to support the idea that Captain Auld "found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty."

What Douglass loathed most about Auld was his conspicuous hypocrisy regarding religion; he claimed to be pious and devoted to Christianity but was demonstrably brutal and duplicitous. He eventually sent Douglass to live with Edward Covey, the famed slave-breaker.