The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass initially declared, "now I am my own master", upon taking a paying job. But later in life, he concluded to the contrary, "experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other".<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery</a>