In the last paragraph of chapter 4, Mr Beal Bondly and Colonel Lloyd discuss Mr. Bondlys murder of one of Colonel Lloyd’s slaves. What does Douglass imply by referring to the interaction as a “transaction”?

Essentially, slaves are a commodity. Douglass relates one last example. Colonel Lloyd's slaves fished for oysters in the nearby river. One day an elderly slave crossed into the adjoining property of Mr. Beal Bondly without being aware of it. Mr. Bondly shot and killed the old man. He came over to Lloyd's home; "whether to pay him for his property, or to justify himself in what he had done, I know not," Douglass wrote, and "at any rate, this whole fiendish transaction was soon hushed up." Clearly, killing a slave was no problem whatsoever.

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