Friday

FRIDAY A handsome, in about 26 years old, with straight and strong limbs, tall and well shaped fellow who bare name Friday which he got for the memory of a day he was rescued. The native who was saved from a certain death by Robinson Crusoe during one of the cannibal rituals of a local tribe. By the man who was actually on his way to Africa to buy Negroes! His hair was long and black …

…mercy but to kill him! Submissive Friday, full of gratitude was treated with the attitude close to colonial that is - possession. In my opinion, Friday’s total submission released Robinson from the sort of guilt and the need to use violence. He was Crusoe` s slave because he was saved by him and lifelong servitude was accepted by Robinson. The servant-master relationship was symbolically sealed by an oath, a substitute for the written contract.