Editing Samuel Cunard (section)

===Personal views===
Cunard throughout his personal life was not a religious man and was considered by many to be agnostic. On his deathbed, Cunard declined [[last rites]] and declared he "did not feel and admit and believe."<ref>Fox, p. 55</ref> His views on slavery in the 19th century were not known, but his statements regarding [[Frederick Douglass]]'s segregated passage arranged by a Cunard Agent in Liverpool on one of his ocean liners in 1845 strongly suggests he was against any form of racial prejudice. "No one can regret more than I do the unpleasant circumstances surrounding Mr. Douglass's passage from Liverpool, but I can assure you that nothing of the kind will again take place on the steamships in which I am connected."<ref>Fox, p. 200</ref>  His views on race reflected those of Britons of the time, who regarded mistreatment of black people as a moral wrong, even though they still considered them to be socially and intellectually inferior to white people.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}}