Classification

classification: arrangement of material into groups; e.g., media classified as print, video, or audio, with representative examples of each

"What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land...I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land."
                                                                  -Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
                                                                                 by Frederick Douglass

In this passage Douglass is clarifying his accusations against Christianity by classifying Christianity into two separate entities. He classifies the one as good and proper, "Christianity proper," and the other as evil and hypocritical, "Christianity of this land." By classifying Douglass is saving himself from much scorn, as his audience, mostly Northern Christians would have denounced him quickly if his claims were misunderstood to apply to "Christianity proper."  This also ensures that his audience is listening, and hopefully realizing the depths of the slaveholders that would twist the Christianity, so beloved by his audience, into a contradictory, harmful mess.