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Life as a Slave
Chapter 10
A Chapter of Horrors
Douglass recounts overseer Austin Gore's unpunished murder of the enslaved Denby, along with other Talbot County killings of enslaved people that went before no court, since Black testimony against a white man carried no legal weight.
Austin Gore's murder of DenbyMrs. Hicks's murder of a teenage slave-girlThe legal impossibility of prosecuting a white killer of a slave‘Worth but half a cent to kill a nigger’