They had worked thirty days and had not got a cent.

Slave-driver Legree had driven them out when they demanded a reckoning.

They were lucky to escape with their lives, their cooties and their appetites.
Instead of financing me, I had to finance them again.

They finally got cleaned up and we all went back to Birmingham, where the strike was over.
"Show us that spieler," they said, "who told us the wage system was the worst kind of slavery.

If daily wages is slavery, God grant that they never set us free again.".