“A man-a human being, made in God’s likeness-fastened up and flogged like a beast. A man, too whom I had lived with and eaten with for months and knew almost as well as a brother. The first and almost uncontrollable impulse was resistance. But what was to be done? The time for it had gone by. But beside the numbers, what is there for sailors to do? If they resist, it is a mutiny: and if they succeed, and take the vessel, it is piracy. If they ever yield again, their punishment must come; and if they do not yield, they are pirates for life. If a sailor resists his commander, he resists the law, and piracy and submission are his only alternatives.”
“Two Years Before the Mast”, R.H Dana Jr., 1840
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