While I agree with you that Brown and Garnet's use of christianity in their speeches helped address everyone, I also think that there was another motive behind it. Some slaveholders backed their view of slaver with the Bible, so to counter argue that view with other things from the Bible, it would make the christian slaveholders, who, as we have seen in other texts we read, were the most brutal, see the issues of their reasoning behind slaver.
I'd also like to point out that in Garnet's "From a Memorial Discourse" He uses God a lot in phrases like "in the name of God" and "if it shall please God" and "mercies and favors of God." So, you can clearly see that Garnet is a christian man and wants the audience to see he is a christian man and that he wants to please God. "In the name of God, the universal Father, we demand the right to live, labor and to enjoy the fruits or our toil." So I do agree that he is using Christianity as an overall theme because everyone practices it and he is also saying that God has given these rights to "live, labor and to enjoy the fruits of out toil," to every men, black and white.
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