Status Updates From The Narative Life of FREDER...

I was now getting 1.50 dollars per day. I contracted for & earned it; it was rightfully my own; yet, upon returning each night, I was compelled to deliver that money to Master Hugh. & why? Not because he earned it, nor because he possessed the slightest shadow of a right to it; but solely because he had the power to compel me to give it up. The right of the grim-visaged pirate upon the high seas is exactly the same.