“That man got me into such nets as made me his black slave. I was always in debt to him, always under his thumb, always a working, always a getting into danger. He was younger than me, but he’d got craft, and he’d got learning, and he overmatched me five hundred times told and no mercy.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 43. Magwitch tells Pip how he felt controlled and trapped by the public school educated fraudster Compeyson. Using a metaphor, he described how Compeyson made him his “black slave” and forced him into more crime.