I speak advisedly when I say this,—that killing a slave, or any colored person, in Talbot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community.
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the murder of enslaved or free Black people in Talbot County, Maryland, was not considered a crime by either the legal system or society.
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