MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> The broken tooth?

S/B  Maybe the driver is a liar. Trying to protect himself. 

But Dixon hit the man.  

The Driver, and this is a repeated scene in this novel, calls Dixon out. 
Several characters call Dixon out. All figure he is a Quaker and will
not fight. 
A stupid assumption to make. And kind of silly for a reader to argue
because the text is clear on this, Dixon will fight if he is provoked. 
The first such scene involved a near fist fight between Dixon and Mason.
Mason backs down. Mason is not a coward (the Seahorse courage), but he
will only fight if his life is in danger. So he doesn't really have
Dixon's back this time, but he did on the Seahorse. Mason is not unlike
Blinky, a slave on the Seahorse, who will only fight because he has to
defend his life and his shipmates. P twists them all together and upsets
all the expected master slave relationships.