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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.
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence... [I held] a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace..."
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