But for it there is no foundation whatever, in a country like the South, where public opinion, the laws, the courts, the juries, the advocates, are all against the Negro, especially one alleged to be guilty of the crime now charged.
Douglass highlights the systemic bias against Black individuals in the South's legal system.
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